no, I don't think anyone wonders about cancer.
Kadark said:While I whole-heartedly agree with your opinions in this particular thread (regarding abortion, anyway), I'm curious as to why you feel others should be able to practice abortion if it's as barbaric as you make it seem? You seem to be arguing its brutality, and you have been equating abortion to the murder of a living, born child. While I don't disagree with this comparison, I'm curious as to why you think abortion should be legal to those who want it, despite how awful you make it seem? If you think abortion is as bad as killing a newborn child, then surely it should be illegal under all circumstances to all people, right? Doesn't sound right to me.
Many things are alive, but you don't care too much about them. Clearly "life" is not the important thing in this debate.
Do you find somehow strange the argument that an egg magically acquires the status of a chicken after it has hatched ?
And in fact a child acquires more and more rights as it develops, so that in the eighth month (for example) it has almost (but not quite) the same status as a live born child.
And the born child continues to "magically" acquire rights and privileges (and lose them) right up until it is some specified arbitrary age, at which time it has the complete set and we call it an "adult".
To declare a fertilized egg to have the same moral, legal, or spiritual status as an adult human being is to be utterly disrespectful of human life and development, not only the child's but the actively participating gestating mother's.
In point of fact I simply don't believe anyone who claims to consider an 8 week embryo a human being equivalent to a child, because I have never met anyone who acts accordingly, supports the laws or customs contingent upon such a belief, or even notices unprompted the ubiquitous failure of any societies to behave according to such a belief. The only time the issue even comes up is when the behavior of women is in need of constraint by their betters, especially re abortion. Otherwise, you will search in vain for (as an example) a society that treats early miscarriage as the death of a child.
"If you cracked open an egg and found a half formed chick instead, could you still make an omelet from it?"
I'm pretty sure that's unhealthy.
some right-to-lifers do. There are pharmacists here who refuse to dispense it. And the Catholic hospitals I know of do not carry it in their pharmacies. If a rape victim shows up for treatment, she will not receive that pill there.
orleander, sam is right. if you cant treat your pts with respect you shouldnt be in health PERIOD. ...
How is it disrespectful to a patient to not dispense a drug they don't agree with? The pharmacist doesn't stand there and call her a whore for using it. If its his own pharmacy he would just say "sorry, we don't carry this drug"
Should we also demand the pharmacist learn Spanish?
...Its not a job description for a pharmacist to be a polyglot, but it is not his job to decide which prescriptions he will fill. Unless its for legal reasons.
do you think a pharmacist who is against the drug would carry it in his store?
He's not refusing the customer, he's refusing the drug. He's not against her, he's against the drug.
I can the same thing happening with medical pot. Some pharmacies will not carry it due to ethical beliefs.