How come everyone here is smarter than me? 
I think you ALL make outstanding points. Totally agree. I was on the fence, seriously, with this issue, and it bothered me so much. I was viewing it from a religious freedom view...and while I think all religions are unnecessary and nonsensical, would a situation like this be my right to choose for someone else?
But, what you are all saying is that a person's health supercedes that of any religious conviction, and where might this slippery slope end?
Catholics for example teach that a variety of reproductive processes and surgeries are ''mortally sinful,'' and so I could see if religious people win on this front, they can opt out of all procedures that 'go against' their beliefs.
Ugh, what a crazy can of worms that would open up!
Thank you everyone for helping me make sense of all this.
I think you ALL make outstanding points. Totally agree. I was on the fence, seriously, with this issue, and it bothered me so much. I was viewing it from a religious freedom view...and while I think all religions are unnecessary and nonsensical, would a situation like this be my right to choose for someone else?
But, what you are all saying is that a person's health supercedes that of any religious conviction, and where might this slippery slope end?
Catholics for example teach that a variety of reproductive processes and surgeries are ''mortally sinful,'' and so I could see if religious people win on this front, they can opt out of all procedures that 'go against' their beliefs.
Ugh, what a crazy can of worms that would open up!
Thank you everyone for helping me make sense of all this.
