So we're back to the so called "conscience clause"

Obama in his Notre Dame speech made a point to suck up to the anti-choice crowd by promising to get some 'conscience clause' in effect, don't know the details, not read the whole speech just blurbs.

But the fact that it was blurbed at all disturbs me. I'm sorry, but if your moral or religious convictions are going to directly interfere with your job and your job is in an integrated societal aspect such as health care, you need to find another fucking job. If your belief system will not allow you to prescribe or perform perfectly legal and safe medical procedures or operations, again, you need to find another fucking job. At the very very least you should not be getting government funding or tax breaks of any kind. You want to refuse people, do it on your own damn time.

Let's say a pediatrician, you know, a child doctor, let's think of the children after all, let's say a pediatrician does not believe in vaccinations based on his religious beliefs. He refuses to vaccinate someones child that wants their child vaccinated. How long would this pediatrician keep his license?

A judge in Minnesota just ruled a family can't refuse chemotherapy for their 13 yr old son, but we're going to allow a pharmacist to refuse to dispense medicine, or let doctors refuse to treat patients? I guess since the family's refusal isn't based on religious beliefs, they don't matter.

Are we really going to let someone elses personal moral or ethical opinions limit or grant other peoples access to health care that they willingly and knowingly choose by an informed decision? Religion now dictates at what level we have access to legal and safe health care?

How in God's name can anyone argue that the rights of the medical professional takes precedence over those of the informed and consenting patient? Did the doctor have a choice of what field of medicine to go into, or even to go into medicine at all? Did they have more of a choice than people have when they only live anywhere near one medical facility or pharmacy? They knew going in that they were ethically opposed to aspects of their industry, yet they choose to go anyway. Patients don't have that same choice, especially not lower income patients most likely to seek birth control or abortion services, both of which are, again, perfectly legal and safe.

This 'conscience clause' is bullshit. By this same reasoning my ethical belief says black people can't mix with white people, thus as a landlord I don't have to rent to black people not because they are black, but because of my ethical beliefs. Perfectly, exactly the same thing.

Following this reasoning anyone can discriminate against anyone for any reason, as long as the claim their 'conscience' doesn't allow it. It either works for everyone or no one, there is no middle ground, because then someone is picking and choosing whose ethics and beliefs count. My Christian sensibilities are offended by Muslims, can I then refuse them service or employment? Fuck no, and neither can medical professionals refuse safe and legal medical services based on ethical beliefs they knew they held long before they decided to enter into medicine.

If you don't like it, leave.