Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Got some wacko that took this to an extreme and now has her company on 
> the verge of being embroiled in a lawsuit. She was a nurse and had been 
> "accidentally" tugging out IUD (Inter-Uteran Devices) from female 
> patients, and explaining it as "accidental", never mind that a) they are 
> hard to remove, b) painful to put in, never mind remove, and c) if done 
> wrong can threaten the patient with infection or sterility. But, in her 
> mind, despite being also ignorant to the point of stupidity about their 
> actual function, they "prevented impregnation", therefor where "morally 
> unacceptable".
> 
> This is the future people. Its only a matter of time with this kind of 
> BS being passed for some court case to crop up some place, where the law 
> is vague about "what" they can deny, and some bozo refusing to put in a 
> pace maker, or taking one out, on the same grounds, or any of a long 
> list of other stupid things, all based on their "religious" conviction 
> that you shouldn't "prevent pregnancy", "sustain life artificially", 
> "over eat", "under eat", smoke, not smoke, or who the hell knows what 
> their "conscience" would make them object to on the grounds of some 
> personal "faith".
> 

A fine argument against public medicine.

  -Shay

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