Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: CrazyShiz
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
So, if Bin Laden were raped we should let him go?
Oh hell no. He should rot in jail AND be denied the Morning After pill. God knows the murder of over 3,000 people is equivalent to stealing...
Please think before you speak.
If she's a criminal she's a criminal, she doesn't get a pass just because she was raped.
She shouldn't have been denied the morning after pill, that's idiotic. I assume the nurse supervisor is Catholic, but I wasn't aware that it was against their religion for
non-Catholics to take the morning after pill.
First of all, I'd say you are wrong on two counts. First of all, if someone is injured (especially a rape), you can arrest them and transport them to a hospital for treatment. After a doctor releases them you can transport them to jail (you have an officer remain outside the patient's room). Or, in cases like this involving a rape, you can delay the serving of the warrant and post a guard to later serve the warrant. There's zero reason to create an emotional trauma on-top of an emotional trauma that had just occurred. It isn't good policing and it isn't the procedure I've been taught.
Secondly, some Catholics or religious folks will NOT dispense or write prescriptions for ANYONE to use a contraceptive. I have a good friend of mine who is a doctor, and he simply won't do it. He's not a jerk about it, though. If someone asks him about it he will simply say it is against his religious beliefs and then call another doctor to take care of the situation, or refer them to someone else for immediate care -- or at the very worst, he will send them to the E.R.
His beliefs are very strong, and it carries over into his personal life as well. He doesn't believe in the usage of contraceptives at all. He's not judgemental about it. He knows that I use them, and he's never once said a negative thing about it. He just explains the way he feels, and that's it. He'd never talk about his personal feelings with a patient unless they ask. Just a simple: I'm sorry, I cannot write you a prescription for that because it is against my religious beliefs. I'll ask Dr. Whoever to come talk to you and help you out. Or, he'll give them a list of doctors or the other things I mentioned earlier.
There's absolutely zero problem to me with someone refusing to dispense or prescribe contraceptives if it is against their religious beliefs. Unless, of course, it is an emergency or there is no provider available. In this situation, with the nurse, it was obviously an emergency, and obviously there was another way out. Someone else could have dispensed it, or she could have sent the girl under guard to the E.R. There's no excuse for REFUSING to allow someone to make their own personal choice. You don't have to dispense it, but you better not prevent their freedom from making a personal choice if they want it. That includes calling the damn Sheriff and getting his ass to come down to the jail if you don't want to do it.