I recently read the comments that Joan Chand’oiseau made in response to the sign in Dr. Chantal Barry’s clinic that read: “Please be informed that the physician on duty today will not prescribe the birth control pill,” in this article.
Then I read some of the comments at the bottom of the page. Then I wrote this comment:
What is so concerning is the absolutism with which the likes of Joan Chand’oiseau approach the issue. “Dr. Barry’s religion has no place in my health or my reproductive health, period.”
In other words, only Joan Chand’oiseau’s religion of “reproductive rights” should be permitted, and not only permitted, but enforced by the state. And doctors who disagree with Ms. Chand’oiseau’s view of the world should be made to act against their consciences. Doctors should simply be unthinking dispensaries serving the demands of a public who, in Ms. Chand’oiseau’s eyes, could only have her worldview – none other could be possible.
And, there should be no doctors for those Canadians who align themselves with Dr. Chantal Barry’s belief that the BCP is both poor medicine and morally unacceptable.
And then I thought to myself, it’s a scary, scary world.
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Excellent comment, Natalie! Glad you included the part about the BCP being poor medicine. I think this debate is really loosing a lot by focusing on religion exclusively. I’m finding lots of comments are based on the false notion that doctors who don’t prescribe the BCP think it is good for women, and are just okay with intentionally harming their patients in the name of some higher cause. The opposite is true: these doctors know the BCP is harmful and refuse to harm their patients.