Michigan Votes Forum

 This sounds like a good "work around" for the latest fiasco pushed on us by Washington.  I like it. It sounds like a common sense way to stop further incursions in to what ever you believe in.

The Mackinac Center synopsis of this bill says,

A person claiming this “conscientious objector” status could not be subjected to civil, criminal, or administrative liability for refusing to perform the objectionable procedure.

I endorse that idea in principle.  However, in order for this to be fair it also should work the other way – that a practitioner cannot be subjected to civil, criminal or administrative liability for performing an “objectionable” procedure.

Without coverage in both directions, which would allow fully for the exercise of professional judgment and personal conscience, this bill should be rejected.

What "objectionable" procedures would this include? Abortion I'm certain, but what others? Are we giving medical professionals the option of choosing which legal medical procedures they choose to perform, based on their personal religious or moral beliefs? If a procedure is legal, medically approved, and a professional is trained and capable of performing it, they should be required to provide it. The health and welfare of the patient should be the only consideration.

I think this is the slippery slope the President wanted to prevent us from going down when he repealed the Bush rule allowing medical professionals to opt out of "objectionable" procedures.