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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
What do you guys think of the thought police? I mean, if you have a belief, this is the government telling you that you can't think that way. I mean, I could understand if you didn't have an alternate choice to see someone else, and that was that, but in all these cases, the patients are referred to someone else that can help them on whatever weirdness that they seek, so they are not left hanging.
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By your standard, I can flat-out refuse to hire blacks (or any other minority, or gender...) in my shop because that's my thought.
The government doesn't tell you you can't think a certain way. In the absence of remote mind-reading and controlling tech this is an impossibility anyway. It, however, prevents people from putting many of their thoughts into actual action in the name of the greater good.
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To me, this is forcing thought on peoples ways of life. What do you guys think? I mean, if a doctor is going to want to commit suicide because he was forced to perform an abortion, how is this right? Its not like this patient couldn't find 20,000 abortion clinics happy to do the work for them...
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I'm sorry. As a health practitioner, he has a duty to perform the abortion, as long as he's capable of doing so. If he's not capable of doing it he should be referring you to someone who's able (assuming he knows any). Moral or religious feelings don't come into it. Period.
Think of it this way. Suppose said doctor performed the abortion and now needs psychiatric help. However, his psychiatrist has something religious against helping people who participate in abortion, so now he's without help. Is that fair to the doctor?