Health Care Workers Cannot Be Penalized for Refusing To Provide Health Care
“People should not be forced to say or do things they believe are morally wrong. Health-care workers should not be forced to provide services that violate their own conscience.” — Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
Perhaps health care workers whose moral objections to contraception and abortion are so strong that they cannot provide those services to women under their care should not be health care workers? But if we are now to accept that employees cannot be denied employment or fired for refusing to provide the service or manufacture or sell the product or do the job that their industry exists to provide, manufacture, sell, or do, then soldiers whose moral objections to killing or to waging an illegal and unjustified war are so strong that they cannot participate in military missions or obey their commanding officers’ orders should not be penalized for refusing to commit acts that violate their own consciences either. Right?
Via Firedoglake.
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