"So Much For Conscience in Wisconsin"

Here's another airplane blog, on another page I pre-loaded earlier in the day before flying. Albert Mohler tells of a bill vetoed recently in Wisconsin that would have allowed doctors to opt out of certain medical procedures on the basis of conscience.

What really rankles here is Governor Jim Doyle's justification of the veto:

"Medical decisions should be made by the patient and the doctor based on what's best for the patient, not on the doctor's political views."

What are these "political" decisions he says doctors are making?

"Destroying embryos or using cells from destroyed embryos; procedures on an embryo that won't benefit it; procedures involving a child growing in an artificial womb that don't help the child; procedures, such as transplants, that use fetal organs; pulling a feeding tube from a person who isn't terminally ill; and assisting in a suicide."

So, a doctor may be required to do a procedure on a child that "doesn't help the child." He may be forced by law to destroy an embryo! Why would that be legally required, for heaven's sake? And assisting in a suicide? This is unbelievable.

I wonder what the long-term consequences of this will be in the recruitment and training of young physicians. "I sure would like to be a doctor," the young man or woman thinks, "but I just can't face the assault on my conscience."

Maybe they'll go into law instead.

Posted: Wed - October 19, 2005 at 05:56 PM |

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"So Much For Conscience in Wisconsin"

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