2007-04-17 20:56:16 · 19 answers · asked by Stef 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's like becoming a mechanic and refusing to work on red cars!
2007-04-17 21:07:40 · update #1
Well if a doctor was refusing to perform an abortion, he shouldnt work is obs/gynae should he? They're not exactly performed by your local GP, they are performed by specialists.
2007-04-17 21:04:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
If it goes against a doctors beliefs, the doctor should have the right to choose not to do it. There are plenty of doctors that will do it. I'm sure most doctors wouldn't have a problem with it if the reason for the abortion is that the mothers life is at stake, or it was a valid rape case. Alot of people don't believe in using abortion as birth control though. A doctor shouldn't have to worry about being fired for refusing it either. They take an oath to save lives. Abortion most of the time isn't anything more than birth control. Like a mechanic refusing to work on red cars? I suppose if the mechanic felt red cars were murder, then yeah? Hmm.
2007-04-18 04:08:33 · answer #2 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course they should have the right to refuse. Since when are people in any line of work in a free society restricted from determining what they will and will not do?
Now, if a clinic where the doctor is employed has a policy that all doctors there have to perform abortions, that's the clinic's business policy. The doctor can either do it or quit and go someplace else where work conditions are less restrictive.
But to state that doctors have to perform abortions is just like saying they are slaves who have no right to determine their own actions. Next we'll be pondering such non-questions as 'should writers be able to refuse writing opinion articles from a viewpoint they personally disagree with', 'should factory workers have the right to refuse to work for less than minimum wage?' and other frightening 'man should not have freedom of choice' questions.
By the way, if a mechanic somewhere owns his own shop and hates working on red cars, he certainly has the right to refuse business. He will lose that business to his competitors and probably will have a harder time staying in business because of his strange policy, but he can still refuse.
2007-04-18 05:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by Jon S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not the same thing at all. You are belittling the wrong that is done in the actual abortion procedure.
To take a life out of its mother is different than working on an inanimate object, a car. How can you make that comparison?
And i would hope that a doctor would have that right because if I was a doctor and didn't then I would give up my profession as I couldn't be a party to murder.
2007-04-18 09:50:37 · answer #4 · answered by pink.jazzz 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think so. It can be a big problem for some people and why should we lose good doctors just because they refuse to perform abortions.
There ae abortion clinics. You do have a choice.
2007-04-18 04:04:15 · answer #5 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why should anyone be forced to do anything that is against their belief? To me, a doctor's job is to heal and to save lives, not to deliberately take away the life of an unborn child. When a person decides to take up medicine to become a doctor, it is because he / she wants to help the sick and the dying, which are noble intentions. Even lawyers have the right to reject and refuse to take up cases that they don't believe they have a chance of winning, so why shouldn't doctors have the same rights to refuse to do abortions as a matter of principle and personal beliefs.
2007-04-18 04:18:25 · answer #6 · answered by Seng Kim T 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Don't confuse 'belief' with 'faith'.
I 'believe' that if a drop wineglass on a tiled floor it will break. Experience has taught me this and am I fairly sure if I dropped a wine glass on a tiled floor in future it WILL break.
'Faith' is different. 'I have faith in the power of prayer'; 'I have faith in miracles'; I have faith that if I explode myself and kill several innocent people in a holy Jihad I will go to paradise'
All these are unprovable and constitute 'Faith'
Doctors do not refuse to do abortions because of belief but because of 'Faith'
And faith is another way of saying 'I do not know but I think this is the case' i.e. ignorance.
So doctors do not refuse on grounds of belief but on grounds of ignorance sanctified by religion.
2007-04-18 04:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by DavidP 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many doctors and nurses that do not wish to get involved with abortions and those who do can be very disapproving to the act. They too are human and have feelings. After all a doctor's job is to save life and not terminate it.
2007-04-18 04:08:51 · answer #8 · answered by I Tisi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is OK for anyone to refuse to do anything that goes against their own personal beliefs. And the analogy you make is offensive - the two things cannot be compared at all.
2007-04-18 08:13:51 · answer #9 · answered by LillyB 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A doctor doesnt' have to perform anything. But if I pay you 500 dollars to perform a service then you better damn well do it.
2007-04-18 04:03:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋