I don’t care if you’re pro-life or pro-choice

Wherever you stand on abortion itself, it is wrong to force doctors to perform abortions.  The hypocrisy of those “pro-choice” groups who would take deny a physician’s right of conscience is just sickening.  And yet that is exactly what Obama is considering.

“But abortion is legal,” you say.  So is capital punishment, but there would be a huge outcry if doctors couldn’t refuse to administer an execution.  And while other federal legislation may theoretically preserve the right of conscience, that legislation is weak and poorly enforced.  Even Obama’s Health and Human Services administrator admits that “there might be a need to clarify existing laws.”  Unlike the other federal laws, the Bush clause also ensures that taxpayer money will not go to hospitals and clinics that violate physician conscience.

I have my own theory about why “pro-choice” groups want to take away physician choice; fewer and fewer medical students are entering the abortion practice.  They want conscripted service.  If that’s the case, they can go to hell.  My pre-med friends are working incredibly hard because they know that one day, they can save lives.  The abortion lobby has no right to deny a doctor’s life-giving call by forcing them to destroy life.

P.S.- I was discussing this with a pro-choice friend on facebook, who is concerned about the patient’s right to health care.  The Justice Party does agree that health care reform is in order.  But I don’t think that the right to health care extends so far as to be able to demand an aboriton from any ob/gyn.  The analogy I gave was this: I plan to become an adoption lawyer.  That puts me in the broader category of family law, which also includes divorce.  But no client can make me do his or her divorce, even though we all have the right to legal representation.  Similarly, if someone becomes an ob/gyn in order to treat STDs, or infertility, or whatever, that person can’t then be forced to do abortions just because it falls under the broader umbrella of medical services sought by women.