03-02-2009, 02:01 AM
Quote:So you are in favor of forcing people to do things that are against their conscience?
HHS says the rule would "in no way restrict health-care providers from performing any legal service or procedure. If a procedure is legal, a patient will still have the ability to access that service from a medical professional or institution that offers it. For example, the regulation does not affect the ability of medical institutions to provide abortion services in accordance with the law."
As far as i'm concerned the second you take the Hippocratic Oath you are under obligation to inform your patients of treatments that can better their health and to point them to where they can obtain such treatments if the patient so chooses. To obfuscate or ignore a treatment because you find it morally objectionable starts down a quick and dirty road of ethical irresponsability when it comes to patient health care.
The issue of morality in any treatment should be solely under the discretion of the patient to decide what they choose to do with their health.