Here's a link to a great thread in GD about PA senate bill that would

[smokey nj]

absolve doctors who deny reproductive care on moral grounds. It saddens me to see that there are a couple of DUers who think this is just dandy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2883545&mesg_id=2883545

[MountainLaurel]

1. Me too

I think what those who think this is great don't realize is that this is not just about reproductive rights. (Although that in and of itself is a reason to oppose such legislation.) For instance, as a child in a fundamentalist church that looked nice and normal from the outside, I was taught that mental illness doesn't exist and is just a symptom of secular society. Now, having been present during a loved one's breakdown when I was still in elementary school, I knew this was bullshit. But I could see students studying "psychology" at places like Liberty in order to become counselors (getting faith-based grants from the federal government of course), teaching sick people that they should just pray harder or refusing to prescribe antipsychotics to a paranoid schizophrenic. In fact, the pastor who taught and still teachers the above is a Liberty grad. Similarly, I encountered medical students at a prominent Catholic university who thought that convincing women not to have abortions was part of their medical ministry.

This bill opens a Pandora's box we'll never close again.

[smokey nj]

2. Medical ministry? I can just imagine the advice one would get .

"Don't worry ma'am, 10 Hail Marys should clear that yeast infection right up." :banghead: