Most physicians believe fertility doctors do not have the right to refuse to help a patient conceive by artificial insemination based on the patient’s marital status or sexual orientation, according to the results of a recently released survey.
And only 1 in 5 (22 percent) believe they do, reported researchers at HCD Research after conducting the Dec. 22-29 study. The remaining 26 percent had no opinion.
Taken just days after the Bush administration enacted the “right of conscience" bill, the new national study asked a number of questions regarding what rights physicians feel they and their colleagues should have or not have.
While a large majority of physicians agree that pharmacists do not have the right to refuse to fill a patient’s prescription based on the patient’s marital status and that healthcare professionals do not have the right to withhold information about where a patient can obtain the care that they refuse to administer, they were notably divided over the remaining questions.
When asked whether the government should be involved in protecting health workers who refuse to participate in care they find ethically, morally or religiously objectionable, 36 percent agreed, 31 percent disagreed, and the remaining 33 percent had no opinion.
Also closely dividing physicians was the question over whether doctors and hospitals have the right to refuse to perform any procedure that is inconsistent with their personal beliefs. The survey found 39 percent of physicians believing that there is such a right while 29 percent believed that there is none. The remaining 32 percent had no opinion.
Lastly, the study found that while physicians were torn over whether the government should be involved in protecting health workers who refuse to participate in care they find ethically, morally or religiously objectionable, they were two times more likely than not (43 to 22 percent) to agree that funding should not be cut for any institution/organization that does not accommodate health workers who do so.
Despite the last result, half of physicians overall expressed support for the "right of conscience" bill, while 33 percent indicated they did not support the rule and 19 percent had no opinion.
The “right of conscience” bill, which was enacted on Dec. 18, grants new protections for health care workers who refuse to provide care that violates their personal beliefs. It also calls for a cut in federal funding for any institution that does not accommodate health workers who refuse to participate in care they find ethically, morally or religiously objectionable. In addition, the bill acts as a safeguard against workers being fired, disciplined or penalized for their actions.
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believer and shooter,
Exactly and Amen!
ifeelfine
George Bush has disappointed me many times but I don't believe he is the dumb cowboy the media would have us believe. I have already repented of trusting in chariots and horses.
ifeelfine, are there any Christian morals or values that you are willing to take a stand for? It seems like every time a Christian view point is presented with regard to moral or ethical issues you are either opposed to it or sitting on the fence. Is your view of Christianity nothing more than a get out of hell free card?
DP: Your locksmith analogy fails miserably. Breaking into someone elses house is illegal. Dispensing contraception, etc is very legal.
shooter38: How did you manage to get through Bush?
Forgivensinner:
He did give Israel a king in Saul, which is what they wanted. I cannot presume to speak for God but I do believe that all is working according to his plan and it shall come to pass just as he said. I don't think we are any different than other people or times in history. Remember God has always had a remnant and he does in America also.
forgiven, it's like the old saying there is more than one way to skin a cat, but ultimately the cat will be skinned.
forgiven, I think God does and allows both, but sometimes He answers our prayers in the way we want in order to show us what we really need. God never wanted the people of Israel to spend 40 years in the Wilderness, but because of their lack of faith and pride they did and He allowed it, but none the less His will for them to possess the Promise Land was fulfilled, but if the people and even Moses would have trusted God and listened to the report of Joshua and Caleb they could have been their a whole lot sooner and one generation and Moses would not have had to die in the Wilderness. God may have preferred that certain leaders not come into power, but His perfect plan will be realized regardless, but perhaps differently then He would have preferred.
shooter wrote: "God is the one who empowers government and puts into leadership those he chooses."
I had this very same converstion the other day. My question was does God choose the leadership or will he allow leadership the people want? And then cause that leasdership for His good purpose?
This should not surprise anyone. This is the way our culture is heading. Too long we have been Christian in name only and not living the way we should. I will get through Obama the same way I got through Clinton. Having faith that God knows what he's doing even if I don't understand. God is the one who empowers government and puts into leadership those he chooses.
tip, and while your in the unemployment line you'll have plenty of time to do just that!:)
"if the job is morally questionable"
It isn't the job that is morally questionable. I take it you would be in favor of a lock smith being forced to take a job opening a lock so people could break in to property. After all, his JOB is to open locks right? He should just turn his back on his ethics and do what he's hired to do right?
You seem to have little or no understanding of ethics. Your position is an attack on the Constitution of the United States and I call it treason.
So as long as you have the right superstitions, you can be legally exempt from doing the job that you're being paid to do?
Attention fundies: if the job is morally questionable, DON'T TAKE THE JOB!
Finally I can have my dream job. After finishing pharmacy school I'm converting to Christian Science.
Then whenever anyone wants their prescription I'm going to refuse, but I will promise to pray for them.
Tempest in a teapot. This "bill" won't survive six months into the Obama administration.
"Let's see, it's.....it's.....it's..... "
...the truth.
And I wonder how Obama's going to accomplish reducing the number of abortions?
It's liberal. It's Bibliophobic. It's intolerance! It's Nazi! It's fascism! No, make that communism! Let's see, it's.....it's.....it's.....
Speaking from the position of someone who is married to a health care provider....
The services are available these liberals want. It is not that the services are being denied. It is about forcing people to do things they believe are wrong and forcing the liberal Bibliophobe intolerance down the throat of anyone who disagrees with them.
Any law which forces such is EXACTLY what was going on in Germany during the Nazi days. You didn't have the right to your beliefs if they were different from the State. It is communism.
If this helps cut down on claims filed against the medical industry thus helping to lower consumer medical costs, well ok then.