![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Inflammatory Politics
Aug. 23rd, 2008 06:49 amTo Whom It May Concern:
I am vehemently opposed to "provider conscience regulation."
A conscientious objector to killing in battle (believing it to be murder) stays home or performs non-combat duties. He or she does not purport to be a soldier and than refuse to fire when other soldiers lives are on the line.
A OB/GYN who will not perform abortions, a pharmacist who will not dispense birth control, should 'stay home' if the full performance of their duties is morally objectionable to them. When their lives are at risk, is not the time for a woman to discover that their doctor or pharmacist is not 'full service'. For many women, travel to another provider in another town may be financially out of their reach.
Access to contraception and safe abortion are among the medical services that women NEED to live full, healthy lives, and sometimes to live at all. Why is it so difficult for people to understand that poor, rural women often have very limited choices, sometimes no choice at all, in what medical providers they can access, in whether or not to have sex, in whether or not to bear children. Please don't make the lives of the poorest among us even worse.
ETA: For anyone inclined to act this post has more information.
I am vehemently opposed to "provider conscience regulation."
A conscientious objector to killing in battle (believing it to be murder) stays home or performs non-combat duties. He or she does not purport to be a soldier and than refuse to fire when other soldiers lives are on the line.
A OB/GYN who will not perform abortions, a pharmacist who will not dispense birth control, should 'stay home' if the full performance of their duties is morally objectionable to them. When their lives are at risk, is not the time for a woman to discover that their doctor or pharmacist is not 'full service'. For many women, travel to another provider in another town may be financially out of their reach.
Access to contraception and safe abortion are among the medical services that women NEED to live full, healthy lives, and sometimes to live at all. Why is it so difficult for people to understand that poor, rural women often have very limited choices, sometimes no choice at all, in what medical providers they can access, in whether or not to have sex, in whether or not to bear children. Please don't make the lives of the poorest among us even worse.
ETA: For anyone inclined to act this post has more information.
