Obama administration rolls back medical workers' conscience protections :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

I used to think that the purpose of hospitals and nurses and doctors and all of that was to help people who were sick and hurting get better and return to their homes, families and jobs healthy and happy. I figured that a government of, by and for the people would set up something it called the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure all those things were done to the best of everyone's ability.

I began to have doubts about that way of thinking when I was in high school seven or eight million years ago. That's when I learned that over in places like Germany doctors actually selected people so they could be killed, and there was a government agency, in fact several of them, that was set up to make sure they got the job done. And, about the same time, I learned that all of that was going on in a pretty big area all across the world, too, where people were being allowed to starve, or being put away in hospitals because they didn't think like the government thought they should think...and then starved, or worked to death, while doctors and nurses and pharmacists made sure they did. Lots of folks here thought that was a good idea because it was Progress.

Not too long ago, I began to read really disturbing stuff about little countries over there across the sea where doctors were being allowed to medically throttle folks who were, they decided, useless, or unhappy, or something; disturbing stuff and downright scary.

And soon I read, and heard, to my horror and shame that there were folks here, "smart" folks with letters after their names and books on library shelves that they had written who said we should kill people, and could kill people who didn't have anything to do that was good or useful. There were other folks who said that instead of killing them we should make it easier to prevent them ever coming into being in the first place. They said doctors and nurses and hospitals should provide "care" for folks who want to kill unborn babies, or prevent babies from even starting, so folks could enjoy sex without having to go home and tell Mom, Dad or their husband or wife what just happened...an accident. It would make things neater.

Soon all of this became a regulation, a court decision and laws, lots of laws, and the huge government department that makes sure all the "i"s are dotted and "t"s crossed was hell bent for leather to make sure they were, and killing and preventing was not road blocked....in hospitals and by doctors and nurses and the whole universe of "health professionals" EXCEPT: If you got an upset stomach and wanted to puke because all of this was bothering you down to the roots of your whole self. There was something called a "Conscience protection" which was a civilized way of saying, "There's enough of us anyway who want to kill people. Go have a smoke and cool off."

Then, we elect a guy to run the whole show who thinks if his daughter gets pregnant it's a punishment, and he makes sure a lady get put in charge of the Department which dots and crosses the killer's "I"s and "T"s. She's best friends with the guy, may he rest in peace, who made a killing out of killing until he got killed himself. And she, God have mercy on her soul, has just signed off on a regulation...don't you love regulations?...which says, "Conscience? Fuggedaboudit."


Obama administration rolls back medical workers' conscience protections :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)