I don’t get it, please help me out
The Bush administration, as expected, announced new protections on Thursday for health care providers who oppose abortion and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.
Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience […]
I assume I’m not understanding the above correctly, because what I understand is the following:
If a surgeon is religious, he won’t have to do abortions anymore. But in that case, if a surgeon is a racist, couldn’t he refuse to operate on black people? Don’t medical workers take the Hippocratic Oath to help their patients no matter what? It’d be more of a Hypocritical Oath then, wouldn’t it?
Could anyone tell me what this is actually meant to mean?
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