<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Donovan writes:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">"I think it is a good idea to give health care provides the option of declining to kill a baby, fetus, embryo, zygote, or fertilized egg if someone else is there willing and able to do it. Why not?"</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Well, I'll give the reason Donovan gave last year when he opposed the federal conscience rule:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">"First, health care is a right. And something being a right means that it must be provided, if not by a government entity, then by a private entity under contract with the government. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">If you are a health care provider, in order to get your license or certification of any kind, you are sworn to do certain things. If you don't want to do those things, you should not sign the agreement to get the license and/or medical certificate. That is when the "choice" is made.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">The choice does not come when someone drops in front of me and I decide I don't want to do CPR and let my employer find another health care provider. Nope, the choice was already made by me when I got my CNA, got my CPR card, got my First Aid card, became med certified, I signed a contract with my employer and the State of Idaho agreeing to provide services in exchange for a job and my certifications and licenses. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Your license is an agreement with the state of Idaho to preform tasks expected of that license, in a state sanctioned manner, by the patient or person in need of your services. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">If is a violation of that person's rights, for me, as a CNA, to not provide care to someone because of this reason or that. If I have a problem with providing care, I could not agree to get my license. There are medications I do not always agree with giving people, that I must give. There are services I provide people, I do not think they should get. But it is not my right to decide what they need or get based on my social/religious/political beliefs. It is my obligation to do what the nurse tells me to do within the scope of my job, training, and licenses, and certifications, that is all. If I commit a sin in the performance of my duties of helping someone, I know a guy named Jesus who I can talk to about forgiveness. If it is something so grave I cannot morally justify it, I need to change jobs. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">I am appalled that a pharmacist has the right to counter a doctor's order and stop care provided to a patient based on their political/social/religious beliefs. That should not happen. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">The pharmacist doesn't know everything the doctor knows. And their inaction could cost a life, or permanent damage to someone. Same with nurse, PA, CNA, LPN, MA, or other medical professionals. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">There are lots of jobs in the medical field that do not involve birth control or abortions a person can pursue if this is a problem for them. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Best Regards,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Donovan"</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">I remember this because this was a response to me when I initially was ok with the conscience rule. Thanks to Donovan back then, I changed my mind and now think it is a bad idea.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Why should a business be obligated to pay an employee who doesn't do their job?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Shouldn't the business have the right to not spend its money on an employee who won't perform their job? If not, then how could a business continue to function if there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent employees from over-enjoying their supposed right to not do their job because of such a broad excuse as it goes against their religion? Are we talking about every single religion?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Does the government have the right to force a business to pay an employee who doesn't do their job? If so, why should government intervene in such an intimate way since that seems rather socialistic?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Doesn't passing a law requiring businesses to pay an employee who doesn't do their job because of religion violate the 1st Amendment? If not, how can a law which essentially is regarding the establishment of religion not be illegal, particularly when it also seems rather anti-capitalistic?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Supporters of the conscience rule need to answer those questions...</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Garrett Clevenger</p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></td></tr></table>