RELIGIOUS FREEDOM! Doctor refuses to care for lesbian couple's 6-day-old baby

[MaxQue]

Disgusting. Hopefully there is some way to sanction this behavior.

Yes, how dare people think differently than you!  Obviously beliefs must be criminalized!

Those are regulated professions, and, usually, the internal rules forbid them to discriminate patients.

[MaxQue]

Don't like the parents' sinfulness?  Take it out on their baby!  👍

Getting a doctor who would be more comfortable interacting with the parents to take her place is taking it out on the baby?

Yes. I realize that you'll excuse nearly anything in the name of religious belief, but separating how one feels about the parents from the welfare of a six-day-old baby is at the very heart of the matter.

Actually, religion is irrelevant on this particular point.  The reason why the doctor chose to be stupid doesn't matter.  I'm already on record on this forum as being generally in favor of allowing people to discriminate.  Only when it becomes so pervasive as to make it unreasonably difficult or impossible for people to obtain needed services should government intervene.

Also, to think that how one feels about the parents of a baby is irrelevant to how one deals with that baby assumes that doctors are machines rather than people.

If you're are unable to go over your bigotry when doing your doctor job, you violate Hippocrates Oath. So, yeah, that person has no business being a doctor. Too bad for all the money she invested, but, she had to do a choice between her job nd her bigotry and she chose her bigotry. I was her choice.

[MaxQue]

Don't like the parents' sinfulness?  Take it out on their baby!  👍

Getting a doctor who would be more comfortable interacting with the parents to take her place is taking it out on the baby?

She a member of AAP and AAP has a policy about

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I even bolded the relevent parts to you.

[MaxQue]

Don't like the parents' sinfulness?  Take it out on their baby!  👍

Getting a doctor who would be more comfortable interacting with the parents to take her place is taking it out on the baby?

She a member of AAP and AAP has a policy about

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I even bolded the relevent parts to you.

And I have no problem with the AAP choosing to sanction the doctor for this.  After all, the AAP is not the government.

Well, for the record, her behaviour is illegal in 22 states, according to various news reports.

[MaxQue]

Do some of you really need to tangentially defend this? 

Who has done this?

Ernest.

I'm already on record on this forum as being generally in favor of allowing people to discriminate.  Only when it becomes so pervasive as to make it unreasonably difficult or impossible for people to obtain needed services should government intervene.

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