Comments on: To Preserve Life, Unless I Disagree http://currentconfig.com/2008/12/18/to-preserve-life-unless-i-disagree/ Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:41:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Steve Laniel http://currentconfig.com/2008/12/18/to-preserve-life-unless-i-disagree/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Steve Laniel Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:36:41 +0000 http://currentconfig.com/?p=1062#comment-1780 <p>It would be cool if this applied to the military. Seriously. If you don't believe in the justness of the Iraq War, you don't need to fight in it.</p> <p>The problems there are obvious. But they're obvious in the health-care-worker case too.</p> <p>I don't imagine this will protect the health-care workers from civil suits. If a doctor refuses to operate on (say) a gay patient, and that patient dies, his family can still sue. Such is the hope, anyway.</p> It would be cool if this applied to the military. Seriously. If you don’t believe in the justness of the Iraq War, you don’t need to fight in it.

The problems there are obvious. But they’re obvious in the health-care-worker case too.

I don’t imagine this will protect the health-care workers from civil suits. If a doctor refuses to operate on (say) a gay patient, and that patient dies, his family can still sue. Such is the hope, anyway.

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