Just putting this out there...

[singerinthedark]

There's a new medical conscience law coming on the books. While it does seek to protect those in the medical field from taking part in activities they feel are morally objectionable, it is so broad in its scope that it could basically take away a woman's right to choose in rural areas and red states. (The people who clean medical instruments are mentioned in the text of the law... yeah it's that broad.)

The text of the law can be found here.

The journal entry that alerted me to this new law can be found here

Comments

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As I'm reading through the 42 page document, I notice that there's a bit in the text about "encouraging workplace diversity" by allowing persons who would have moral objections to medical procedures to enter the medical workforce. It's like a militant vegan being encouraged to work at a sausage factory--and then the vegan refuses to clean the grinder, on the grounds that more sausage would be produced--and the vegan *can't* be fired for failure to perform zer job requirements, because so firing would be discriminatory, don'tcha know.

I don't have a problem with people who wouldn't want to do certain things to not take the job in the first place. Re-defining terms on a 30+ year old piece of legislation seems rather arbitrary and suspicious both.