Religious people in the medical field

[Angrboda]

Currently we're talking about religious objections to good procedures. Everybody on this forum agrees, I think: we don't want certain people to refuse to do things because their consciences object.

We have to be careful about what kind of laws we demand, though. If Trump makes it illegal to deliver "anchor babies" or sell medicine to people who don't carry proof of citizenship, then conscientious objection to those laws will be necessary. So we don't want to find that we've accidentally thrown those people in jail.

Civil disobedience carries with it the risk of consequences. It would be unwise to justify granting special rights to people simply to hope that people who engage in civil disobedience get a pass when the time comes. All that's doing is endorsing harm to make life for people who are objectively breaking the law easier. If people who conscientiously object deserve special consideration then they do so on its own merits, not simply because we want a tit for tat with something we are in favor of. That's not a reasonable justification.