Comment

How Rick Perry's Creationist Agenda Threatens Lives

23
RogueOne9/29/2011 6:43:55 am PDT

re: #22 Obdicut

But why do you think the state has to make the decision for them by banning people that they haven’t approved from practicing medicine?

I’m still not sure where you’re seeing a contradiction. Deciding if a person is qualified to be a doctor is a much easier process than a drug/stem cell trial. Are you asking why they have the right to do one but not the other?

Since most Dr’s accept federal money they obviously have the right to decide who gets their seal of approval. I also think it’s in the public’s interest that an agency license qualified medical professionals. That doesn’t mean that the federal government should be the lead in those licenses but we’ve already made that decision so it’s not worth going down that road. In the case of drug studies it’s the same argument, their money, their approval, their rules. If they limited themselves to saying “you can decide on your own to have a procedure done that we haven’t approved but we’re not going to pay for it” then we’d be fine.