Wednesday, January 31, 2007

If you're not a doctor, you can't deny perscriptions

I was shocked to hear the story of a 21-year-old pre-med student at my old uni. who was raped in the middle of the day, on a very crowded street, on her way to Gasperilla. I was further shocked when I read that this girl was denied the Morning After Pill by a police officer who felt the pill was "against her religious convictions" and denied the woman her doctor-percribed pills in the timely manner in which they must be taken to be effective.
It makes me very sad and angry when people use their own moral yardsticks to shove down other's throat. It is further sad that this woman of "high moral convictions" felt that denying medication that could in effect force someone into an unwanted pregnancy was a manifestation of her God's Love and Righteousness.
It should be a felony to interfer in the doctor-patient relationship. And those that do in the name of their god should be aware that they give him (or her) a very bad name.

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