Doctors' beliefs can hinder patient care

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19190916/

This simply infuriates me. It takes a lot for something to really get me emotionally wound up in anger and disgust and this did it. This article is about how some doctors are now refusing health care to individuals, mostly women, if it conflicts with their moral beliefs. Doctors refuse to give out birth control, provide the morning after pill to rape victims and deny abortions all because it’s against their moral beliefs. I’m sorry, but if you decide to be a doctor you damn well know that doing those things will be a part of your job. It is not a doctor’s place to put judgment on people or to deny them the health care they request. I am so sick of these fanatical religious people who take places of power and push their beliefs on other people by refusing to act accordingly to their job title. This goes for politicians too. George W. Bush just vetoed the stem cell research bill, why? Because it’s against his religion, did he care about the almost 70% of America’s who were in favor of it? No. Isn’t a President, a Doctor, supposed to be working for the people? When did these positions of trust and power become so self righteous and selfish that they cannot separate themselves from the duties they promised to provide.

I’m not saying I agree with issues like abortion, and that's my point, I personally would not have an abortion, but my personal morals have nothing to do with the person who sits next to me in class or on the buss, and I refuse to judge. If they want to make that choice it is not anyone’s right to take that choice away from them or to tell them they're wrong. God did not create people to judge other people. Every individual makes their own decisions and choices and they deserve to know their options. I hate that age old argument of trying to save other people with religious beliefs, if a person has any interest in a religion they will find a way to be a part of it, they don’t need to be hammered by people trying to constantly convert, especially with uncalled messages that only provoke fear and often hatred.

A doctor has a job just like everyone else, you go to work and you do your work, you leave your personal life at home and you leave your work at the office. The article mentioned something about how doctors have to be able to go home at night and live with themselves. If a doctor doesn’t believe in birth control or abortion and gives out birth control or abortion because a person requested it, in my opinion, that lays no judgment on the doctor and the doctor shouldn’t make themselves feel bad because of it. If you feel otherwise, don’t be a doctor.

Anyone who condemns a doctor for giving out birth control or performing abortions needs to get a life and focus on positive ways to spend their energy. I will never understand how issues like stopping gay marriage and stem cell research always take precedence over making sure people have food, shelter and good health. I especially think that the two rape cases that are mentioned in this article are an abomination. When will this world stop being so concerned with making everyone else think exactly like them. "It doesn't matter how you get there as long as you all arrive at the same place."