Reply #17: Yes. Medical practice should be value-free...

[RiverStone]

And yet beholden to providing accessible and highly competent services.

This debate is a cousin to the controversies around some pharmacists' refusing to honor a prescription for the "day after" pill or those groups that are opposed to Oregon's Death With Dignity law.

Why is personal choice such a challenging concept for some folks to understand? And more often then not, these are the same people who complain about too much government (unless someone is doing something they don't like). Then of course they say, please gov --- intervene!

Hypocrisy is action.