Doctor refuses to provide birth control, makes what should be hyperbole into reality November 28, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in Morality, reproductive rights, wingnuts.trackback
When I wrote about how destructive it would be if doctors followed the lead of pharmacists who refuse to prescribe medication, what I wrote should have been hyperbole. Surely, in a sane world, doctors would not refuse to provide medicine or service to a patient due to their moral judgements about that patient. Unfortunately, in the real world, moralistic assholes too often run the show:
Dr. Scott Ross, a Catholic family physician in Virginia, believes contraception interferes with God’s plan to breathe life into us, so he doesn’t prescribe birth control.
God Damn it. Refusing to prescribe medicine for non-medical reasons should put a doctor at risk of losing his or her right to practice. Aside from his desperation to punish sex through childbirth, surely the good Dr Ross knows that there are lots of reasons to be on the pill, many of which have absolutely nothing to do with enjoying sex and wanting to control when one gets pregnant.
Furthermore, as Ann notes:
I’m sure he sleeps well at night, completely unperturbed that he’s contributing to the number of unplanned pregnancies, and therefore the number of abortions.
If anti-choicers really cared about reducing the number of abortions, they’d be the first to advocate birth control. It’s worth repeating over and over again: opposition to birth control makes no sense if one is “pro life” but makes perfect sense if one really wants to control women’s bodies.
Man, I should forward this to my friend, a chief resident at an area hospital. She’d have a few choice words for this.
In all fairness to the good doctor, what the heck are you doing going to a catholic family doctor if what you are wanting is birth control? Ideally, this would be something the market would control.
/capitalism