Fine, I can see the argument for there to be a rule of conscious. There may be circumstances where people disagree with another's choices. But I do think that a doctor then has an obligation to refer a patient to another doctor to discuss the issue. They are potentially doing harm to the patient who is coming for help. Doing no harm does not just mean in accordance to your morals. A woman asking for the morning after pill, you may disagree with, but what kind of harm are you potentially putting a person in. A doctor does not know all of a person's personal circumstances, and the amount of time it would take to gather all that information makes taking the morning after pill too late. What if it is an incestuous situation a person has no control over? Making a person have to deal with even more emotional trauma from a forced pregnancy is doing harm to a person. So fine, if you want to deny care based on choice of conscious, that is okay, but I think I have the right to know about it in advance.
I think that doctors and health insurance plans should be responsible for disclosing that information in documentation availble to people prior to going into a doctor's office.
If a medical personal is going to refuse to provide birth control because of moral objections in any case, he or she should need to put that as a by line, the same way "bilingual" is listed.
Something like "rule of conscious for all matters of conception" that way women can make informed choices about being a doctor's patient or not. I would hate to find out I am going to see a doctor who is refusing treatments to others because their morals are judging my behavior and lifestyle.
Just as people who perform abortions are discrimnated against, then individuals could make conscious decisions to not support the oppostite practice either.
It would create a competative market where patients can more actively choose their doctor.
That way I can chose a doctor who is not refusing help or treatment to a person requiesting it because they are trying to improve their lifestyle and make equally informed decisions along their moral guidelines.
What happened to the our freedoms. These doctors refusal to refer to another doctor who is willing to help or address a patients issue in alignment with his or her morality is imposing their lifestyle on another. Fine, dont' do my abortion, but don't withold information about where I can get help from people who are more understanding and in line with my morals, then you are doing harm to me!
