If health care is a right, and abortion is a right, it stands to reason that doctors who work for a national health care service will have to refer patients for abortions.
You may call me paranoid for suggesting that if we go to a "single payer" health care system, that Catholic doctors will be forced to either renounce their beliefs or give up the practice of medicine, but it looks like it's already happening in Britain.
Catholic doctors could be stripped of their right to refuse to arrange abortions under proposals to be debated next week.They will no longer be able to conscientiously object to authorising abortions but instead will be compelled to send any woman requesting the procedure directly to an abortion clinic. The proposal has caused immense anger among the growing number of doctors who have moral objections to abortion - with about one in four now refusing to sign consent forms.
Some may launch a test case if, as expected, the move is pushed through the British Medical Association's policy-making body on Thursday.
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The implication of nationalized health care is having no Catholic doctors. Do we imagine this will improve the ethics of the medical profession, or damage it?