RE: Pediatrician Refuses Treatment of Baby of Lesbian Parents
April 7, 2015 at 2:52 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2015 at 3:01 am by Creed of Heresy.)
One's personal life and one's professional life have no business interfering with one another.
The fact that there are people who want to bring their personal private beliefs into their public and professional lives demonstrates that they are wholly unprofessional.
The fact that there are now doctors who are doing this bullshit shows they are also completely unethical. "Do no harm." If you refuse treatment to someone because of your own biased personal out-of-profession beliefs, you are doing harm by leaving them suffering and/or untreated. Unprofessional, unethical.
So, yes, it makes sense to make it illegal for a healthcare provider to say "no" to treating someone because of their sexual orientation. You are a medical professional, not a fucking judge of character; shut the fuck up and do your fucking job, and if it takes the law stepping in to force you to do it, so fucking be it. This slippery slope of picking and choosing who can and cannot be treated based on personal convictions is not to be trod upon. Religious freedom takes a back-fucking-seat to the right to life itself. You say it's legal for a healthcare provider to refuse to treat someone because of their sexual orientation in a non-emergency situation, you establish a precedent for allowing even emergency personnel to refuse to treat people based on religious convictions. After all, what is the difference? Oh sure, Christians, you can say it's because since it's not emergency-level it's not life-threatening, but have you ever heard of the importance of preventative care? If refusal of treatment results in it becoming an emergency, then it's the same fucking thing. And what if it becomes an emergency but care cannot be provided fast enough by that point?
Religious freedom does not usurp the right of an individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If one's religious beliefs cause another to suffer, then the line of religious freedom has been drawn. The same reason we do not allow sharia law to be legal is the same reason Christians do not deserve the "right" to deny anyone anything because of their personal beliefs. You providing care or services to someone of a sexual orientation you do not agree with does not intrude on your beliefs to any fucking extent. You are not being asked to bless their orientation, you are not being asked to condone it, therefore you have no room for argument, and instead all you have is room to whine.
And that is what you Christians are doing: WHINING. "BAWWWW! The world doesn't revolve around me and my silly beliefs! I can't have absolute privileges at the expense of others! I can't be treated better than others because of my beliefs! BAWWWWW!!!" Cry me a fucking river, act professional, do your fucking jobs, and shut the fuck up!
The fact that there are people who want to bring their personal private beliefs into their public and professional lives demonstrates that they are wholly unprofessional.
The fact that there are now doctors who are doing this bullshit shows they are also completely unethical. "Do no harm." If you refuse treatment to someone because of your own biased personal out-of-profession beliefs, you are doing harm by leaving them suffering and/or untreated. Unprofessional, unethical.
So, yes, it makes sense to make it illegal for a healthcare provider to say "no" to treating someone because of their sexual orientation. You are a medical professional, not a fucking judge of character; shut the fuck up and do your fucking job, and if it takes the law stepping in to force you to do it, so fucking be it. This slippery slope of picking and choosing who can and cannot be treated based on personal convictions is not to be trod upon. Religious freedom takes a back-fucking-seat to the right to life itself. You say it's legal for a healthcare provider to refuse to treat someone because of their sexual orientation in a non-emergency situation, you establish a precedent for allowing even emergency personnel to refuse to treat people based on religious convictions. After all, what is the difference? Oh sure, Christians, you can say it's because since it's not emergency-level it's not life-threatening, but have you ever heard of the importance of preventative care? If refusal of treatment results in it becoming an emergency, then it's the same fucking thing. And what if it becomes an emergency but care cannot be provided fast enough by that point?
Religious freedom does not usurp the right of an individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If one's religious beliefs cause another to suffer, then the line of religious freedom has been drawn. The same reason we do not allow sharia law to be legal is the same reason Christians do not deserve the "right" to deny anyone anything because of their personal beliefs. You providing care or services to someone of a sexual orientation you do not agree with does not intrude on your beliefs to any fucking extent. You are not being asked to bless their orientation, you are not being asked to condone it, therefore you have no room for argument, and instead all you have is room to whine.
And that is what you Christians are doing: WHINING. "BAWWWW! The world doesn't revolve around me and my silly beliefs! I can't have absolute privileges at the expense of others! I can't be treated better than others because of my beliefs! BAWWWWW!!!" Cry me a fucking river, act professional, do your fucking jobs, and shut the fuck up!
