CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Martha Coakley: Devout Catholics 'Probably shouldn't work in the emergency room' (1/19/2010 1:58:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy OK Steel... tell me exacly when is it that human life begins? If you can pinpoint it to some time later, I'll agree with you. If not, than I will give the benifit of doubt, since the end result of human conception is an actual human being and not a pig or salamande, to life begining at the afore mentioned conception. Human life begins when a human gets a life of hir own -- IE, when xhe is no longer completely and utterly, parasitically dependent on something else to live... XIE, when xhe is BORN and BREATHES on hir own. Before that, xhe is a -potential-, not a person, and the priorities of saving life, and the decision about whether or not to continue in the creation of a life, IMO, go first to the existing, living, breathing, thinking human being on whom the parasitic creature depends. Now I -love- my offspring dearly, and I took damned good care of them when I was carrying them -- but if I'd listened to my doctors when they told me to abort my first baby because it was damaging me, I probably would still have fully functional kidneys and a fully functional heart... but instead, I listed to my parents and in-laws, who convinced me that that parasite was more important than I was, and that I would roast somewhere in Hell if I had the NERVE to protect my own health over hers... and it is more than amazing (and a tribute to some amazing rescue work by the doctor-on-call who was there when I delivered) that I survived her premature birth. (She, however, was so traumatized by the lack of oxygen/nutrients and exposure to toxins because of my damaged heart/kidneys that she only survived 16 minutes after delivery). This -must- be a personal decision, not regulated by the State. It is a torturous decision for most women, no matter what their opinion on the subject, and doesn't get any easier with every Tom, Dick, and Martha sticking their nose in the matter. I don't care what someone else's religious convictions are -- they're welcome to them... but people need to keep their religious convictions out of other people's business when it is no matter of theirs... and that INCLUDES letting people on a shift help one another out so that, if one person has moral issues with a part of the job, others in the workplace can work out how to make sure that the clients are taken care of AND the workers' convictions are respected. As for the situation posted earlier about the doctor who refused to give care, at that point, it is YOUR RIGHT as a patient to request a different physician, and it is the OBLIGATION of the institution to provide one. An on-call doctor could have been called from another department (including the on-call OB/GYN) to resolve the matter. We used to do it all the time in the ER... but patients need to know that they can -do- that, and the hospital isn't going to tell you... so it really -is- a case of being pro-active about your own care. It is highly unlikely that the hospital won't have a single nurse, PA, or doctor who can provide for a patient's needs because of moral/religious convictions. *sheesh* Calla
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