I still don’t understand why there is a debate here.  As long as abortion is a legal medical procedure, it is part of a job description. Should we also allow nurses to opt out of assisting doctors in organ transplants or blood transfusions if their religious views oppose these procedures?

If these choices are left to the employees, I am sure all of us can find aspects of our jobs that we may find morally objectionable. If you work at the convenience store you have to sell cigarettes. You may consider it a hedonistic desecration of the Sacred Body, but that is just tough. If you don’t want to sell cigarettes you have to work at a store without a tobacco license.

My aunt used to work for Boeing, but changed jobs because she didn’t want to help build weapons of war. She didn’t ask her supervisor to please make sure that nothing she worked on was part of a military contract. If a nurse doesn’t want to assist in abortions, they can find a job for a doctor or clinic that doesn’t conduct abortions. Simple.

The whole world doesn’t revolve around any one person or their beliefs, even if some wish it did.

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