Does A Doctor

[ManDownUnder]

On the flip side of the argument though... doesn't NZ have one of the highest rates of the clap going around too???

Encouraging rubber instead of the pill might not be such a bad thing...

[Indiana_Jones]

There are Jews in the world, there are Buddhists,
There are Hindus, and Mormons and then,
There are those that follow Mohammed, but,
I've never been one of them...

I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I were born.
And the one thing they say about Catholics,
Is they'll take you as soon as you're warm.
You don't have to be a six-footer,
You don't have to have a great brain,
You don't have to have any clothes on,
You're a Catholic the moment Dad came.
Because...

Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.



-Indy

[curious george]

I had to go into hospital yesterday for a minor operation and was made to take a bloody pregnancy test! Despite telling the nurse I was not pregnant, nor had I ever been, and showing her the pill packet I was told to bring with me, I was still required to take the test - and then charged for it on my bill!

It is necessary, because if you were pregnant, it could change the way you are looked after, and/or even your surgery.

It's a sad fact, but patients, even very nice patients like you lie sometimes.
You wouldnt believe the ammount of virgins and 'sorry, couldn't possibly be pregnant' and so on that are indeed pregnant. Amazing.

The point to my story is - Sometimes people don't know they are pregnant. Sometimes people dont want to be pregnant, so maybe it will just go away.
Either way, unless proven otherwise, you might be pregnant. And if you went to a private hospital, you will be charged for the pleasure.
It ain't for fun, but for the hospitals protection, and the possible baby's protection.

[Lou Girardin]

Religion has its place for some, but disenpowering women for all intents and purposes in the name of god is absolute crap!!!!
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It appears though that it is Government policy to discriminate against women
because of cultural practices.

[kerryg]

I really don't care too much about this whole situation, there are other doctors that can provide the services that he is not willing to. I think it is a storm in a teacup.

I wholeheartedly agree. To talk of disempowering women etc etc is to generalise from the particular. One doctor does not prescribe the pill. Therefore women are disempowered. Come again? How many doctors are there? How many other types of contraception are there anyway?

At a slight tangent, since when anyway was it a patient's "right" to get a prophylactic treatment from a doctor for an elective act? See Doc, I'm thinking of intentionally exposing myself to (asbestos/mad cow disease/mustard gas/pregnancy/ name your hazard), can you give me something to prevent it? If he says no think it falls into a different category than denying treatment to an unwell person.

[curious george]

It seems this whole thing is a bit of a storm in a tea cup anyway.....
There are other options to all the women concerned, so nobody has had anything taken away from them.
If he didn't offer alternatives, there might have been a bit more of a problem, but it seems he was just getting out of the contraceptive game...
Move along here people...... bit of a non-story really. Musta been a quiet day at the paper.

[mangell6]

It seems this whole thing is a bit of a storm in a tea cup anyway.....

The issue that I raised was about "a gender-unspecified doctor" having a choice, and the great mahjority agree that an individual does indeed have that right.

Move along here people...... bit of a non-story really. Musta been a quiet day at the paper.

News media saw a chance to sell more newspapers "non-european male doctor allowing teenagers to get pregnant", I was more curious about others reaction to the real issue, which was hidden in the media hype.

Thanks to all who have contributed and remember it is about the individuals right to ..... and their responsibility for . . . . . .

Mike