Nov 19 2008
President Bush Has A Conservative Moment
The Bush Administration plans to grant protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other medical procedures due to religious or moral objections and it is long overdue.
Under the rule anyone receiving federal money will be prohibited from discriminating against doctors, nurses and other health care workers who refuse to perform or assist in providing abortions or sterilization procedures due to their “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”
Under the umbrella employes of hospitals, clinics, doctor’s offices and drugstores will not be able to require a health care worker participate in these activities if it collides with their religious beliefs or moral convictions.’
Of course, Obama is upset because according to him it will cause problems for women seeking abortions. Heaven forbid women be inconvenienced in their efforts to murder an unborn child. That is not acceptable. All must violate their own convictions and beliefs so women who have made a mistake won’t be “punished” with a baby.
What about those whose only mistake was to be a victim? I don’t like abortion but no-one has the right to play God except God and anyone who aborts a baby should be answerable only to their God for the decision they make. Not their neighbor, not their mother, not society, and certainly not the Goverment.
Victims of rape/incest shouldn’t be made bigger victims at the hands of a Government playing God.
I agree that there’s a different case to be made for late termination, but what I’m talking about is less than 2 months, the time in which many pregnancies often fail, and where there are also specific circumstances requiring the abortion.
Whilst the entire thing about women’s right to choose being second to non-affected public morality doesn’t sit with me, I’d be acquiessant if there were noted exceptions rather than a dogmatic law that doesn’t allow for some situations to be beyond the scope of that law.