How comfortable will you be when your local hospital is entirely to be staffed by Christian scientists who when you arrive at the ER will pray for you but no medications, no surgery, nothing but the care which their religious freedom allows them to select for you. And the government will pay those doctors and license them and give tax dollars to that hospital to provide prayer and nothing more, and it is the only hospital in your county or within 200 miles or your home. When your oncologist hired at Moffitt tells you no chemo or radiation as he will instead only pray for you will you say, "Thank God"

Should your future doctor be taught the full range of medical skills of his specialty or should the objections of some make such an education illegal. The Catholic church considers artificial birth control to be a go directly to Hell sin. Right up there with murder and lust.

No wiggle room there for good Catholics.

So given that the overwhelming majority of first world Catholics are going to Hell, what power should the Catholic church have to regulate the teaching of future doctors who provide women's health, or for that matter men's health.

Do you believe that a urologist should be forbidden to learn how to do a vasectomy? Should an ObGyn never be instructed how to do a tubal ligation? Should all doctors never be taught the proper use of birth control pills, their risks and benefits, and other contraceptive choices? Should any doctor who may be the doctor on call in the hospital when your wife or daughter presents in shock bleeding with an ectopic pregnancy with minutes to survive if that pregnancy is not terminated, never learn how to terminate a pregnancy? Do you make the care of women safer by providing them with doctors who have not been trained in the provision of women's care? Or do you make them safer by training them well to provide necessary and legal care?

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