Monday, March 30, 2009

Objector vs. Objection

The Obama administration is looking at suspending the right of doctors and nurses to refuse to participate in abortions on the basis of their personal moral objections. The administration states that if a nurse or doctor refuses to take part in the procedure they need to find another line of work. That also includes many Catholic hospitals that will have to close for refusing to perform the procedure.
What I find interesting about that is that the same administration has no problem with conscientious objectors on the battlefield. They see no problem with not killing another human in the line of war, but in an operating room they have a problem with a doctor or nurse refusing to take the life of an unborn child.
There’s no difference. Any way they want to spin it, it’s the same thing. It is a personal, moral choice and the government should have no place in that decision. So how is it the president and his administration are seeing it from opposite viewpoints? How can they see the same moral issue as two separate issues? The answer is simple. There’s no moral compass, no guiding principles for them to follow. To this administration and their adherents it’s all about the money. They go where the focus groups and the money tell them to go. There’s no leadership or belief system, it’s all about the particular issue at the time and where they think they can exploit it to get the most votes.
We’re in a lot of trouble…

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