Re: why shouldn't your patients ...

rich hammett wrote:
Minä suojelen sinua kaikelta, mitä ikinä keksitkin sanoa, stephenj:

aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Matthew Hennig <matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


So you're for no regulation then? Any procedure a doctor wants to do is
fine, and refusing to do any procedure is fine? Why have any form of
licensing at all?


regulations are like anything else the government wants to do - the operative principle should be "no", and it takes a compelling reason to turn that into a "yes". in this case, there is no compelling reason to make wal-mart sell the morning-after pill.

the pill doesn't address a critical medical need,


You're quite a loon on this point, you've been shown how you're
wrong a dozen times.

No, while i've agreed that pregnancy is, objectively, a serious medical condition, but i've educated you on how we can safely presume that anyone who engages in unprotected sex is unlikely to share that belief.

and it is readily available at other outlets.

Perhaps, for a time.

As the article says, it is. That alone is enough to make state-compulsion in this case unjustified.


--
"the 14th amendment is now used by the Supreme Court solely for the
purpose of striking down the rest of the Constitution".

- Senator Richard Russell, 1967
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