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This is an outragous article.
Conscience choice is all that seperates free men and slaves. No doctor should be a slave to his practice. Nor should a so-called Ethics Professional with no values be allowed to force his lack of vision onto others. There is no credibility in his darkness.
All the 'what ifs' postulated in the article are so much smoke, carefully disguising the real issue that is not spoken of, that of abortion on demand, carefully omitted to disguise intent. No doctor should be required to take the life of a fetus if it conflicts with their values. Perhaps the Doctor takes serious his responsibilities to protect life. Just because a law is passed does not lessen the value of that life, nor the conscience of a true professional.
If anything, this article points out the dangers of Socialized medicine, where doctors lose freedoms in their practice because they in effect become employees of the State, ergo, property of the State. This is slave metality.
At all counts, a doctor must be free to decline work. The life of the doctor is no less than the patient.
Any emergency responder is required to evaluate an emergency scene for personal danger. To not do so puts the victim and the responder at greater risk. A doctor must also. This is sometimes a difficult thing, involving the possible lives of the patient or the doctor and the doctors' family. What doctor would want to bring home some deadly disease to those whom they love because someone else was so afflicted and they were 'required' to treat and through some innocent mistake, easily made unknowingly, became infected? How is that thinking rational?
One of the most important safeguards to our societies is a doctor that has values. Can you imagine a lawyer with no values? Or a politician? (No giggles here!)
Doctors are trained and educated to make proper medical decisions. They understand their roles. Leave them free to determine their own values, to accept their own level of risk. We have fashioned laws where we don't want them to go, but let's not drag them where they don't want to go.
Perhaps if they would not perform, you wouldn't either, given the same variables. Perhaps you would, to your own harm or shame. Perhaps you should be free to make that choice. So should they.
Some dangers are self evident, some are a matter of conscience. Doctors have to live with the results of their work, and should not be force to do something they find morally repulsive, regardless if the laws allow for it. Perhaps the laws are corrupt! (Remember the lawyers and politicians with no morals? It wasn't a doctor with principles making some of these laws!)
He (the Ethics Professional?) " . . . believes the door to 'value-driven medicine'(substitute Law for medicine if you will, just for contrast) is a door to a Pandora's box (with lots of derisive descriptors of those evil values). Public servants (slaves) must (because they are fellow slaves, after all) act in the public interest, not their own.
The so-called professional from Oxford is 180 degrees wrong. But he can't be blamed. He received a Socialized miss-education, proving to be yet another victim of a slave State with a fixed slave mentality.
Perfectly rational, but absolutely incorrect.