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National Right to Life Committee Claims Health Bill Would 'Subsidize Abortions' - Bzzzt. False.

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iceweasel9/22/2009 7:12:01 pm PDT

re: #109 lostlakehiker

The fact remains that no one has proposed conscience clauses for any of your hypotheticals. Why is that? It’s pretty obvious.

Abortion and birth control and emergency contraception are legal. Doctors and pharmacists don’t get to decide after the fact that they won’t provide those services. If you don’t want to perform abortions, don’t be an ob/gyn. It’s simple.

And pharmacists should no more be granted a dispensation to avoid handing out birth control than they should be granted one for refusing to fill prescriptions for Ritalin for children, or Viagra for young men, or anti-depressants. It’s not their job.