Bill would allow Utah doctors to refuse care based on ‘moral, ethical, religious’ objections
S.B. 320, being run by Sen. Evan Vickers (R-Cedar City) would allow doctors to refuse care if they have a “conscientious objection” to providing a medical service.
“A physician may exercise a conscientious objection if providing the medical service would conflict with the physician’s medical, moral, religious, or ethical beliefs,” the bill reads.
“Anything from abortion, to transgender (care), to vaccines, to medical cannabis, there’s probably a laundry list of things that could come under consideration for it,” Vickers said, while pointing out that the bill is not in its final version. “I believe in the intent of the bill but I also believe we need to be narrow in our crafting.”
When asked if a doctor could deny a patient access to birth control because of a moral objection, Vickers said yes based on the current draft.
The bill would prevent anyone — including Utah’s Department of Professional Licensing from “taking adverse action” against doctors who claims a conscientious objection. Under the bill, a doctor could civil claim if they believed they were retaliated against.
Vickers said physicians would have to refer patients to another provider for care, and they would also have to defend their decision not to treat.
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S.B. 320, being run by Sen. Evan Vickers (R-Cedar City) would allow doctors to refuse care if they have a “conscientious objection” to providing a medical service.
“A physician may exercise a conscientious objection if providing the medical service would conflict with the physician’s medical, moral, religious, or ethical beliefs,” the bill reads.
“Anything from abortion, to transgender (care), to vaccines, to medical cannabis, there’s probably a laundry list of things that could come under consideration for it,” Vickers said, while pointing out that the bill is not in its final version. “I believe in the intent of the bill but I also believe we need to be narrow in our crafting.”
When asked if a doctor could deny a patient access to birth control because of a moral objection, Vickers said yes based on the current draft.
The bill would prevent anyone — including Utah’s Department of Professional Licensing from “taking adverse action” against doctors who claims a conscientious objection. Under the bill, a doctor could civil claim if they believed they were retaliated against.
Vickers said physicians would have to refer patients to another provider for care, and they would also have to defend their decision not to treat.
https://www.abc4.com/news/politics/bill-...bjections/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
