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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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