Christian Doctors Refusing Contraceptives to Patients Based on Their Beliefs in the Supernatural

There is yet another disturbing trend in the United States stemming from religion. Alarmingly, more and more pharmacists and physicians are refusing to dispense birth control or write prescriptions for women in need of contraception.

An increasing number of doctors and pharmacists in this country are denying women birth control pills and other forms of contraception, which will inevitably lead to an increased number of unwanted pregnancies, and can jeopardize women's reproductive health.

Why are doctors and pharmacists refusing women proper health care? Because of their faith and the so-called "moral obligations" that stem from it. Christian doctors, particularly Catholics, are forcing their beliefs on their patients, and this should be made a crime with severe penalties.

Instead, legislators in many states have enacted refusal clauses, which allow health care providers to refuse medical treatments on the grounds that they conflict with the provider's religious beliefs.

In fact, forty-six states have existing refusal statutes written into their state legislation. More incredibly, federal legislation is being proposed to expand this.

Ninety-five percent of women in the United States use contraception at some point in their lives, and at least half of those women use prescription methods. It is astounding in this day and age that the United States should allow doctors and pharmacists to impose their ridiculous beliefs in the supernatural on their patients, to discriminate against women seeking contraceptives and to deny them this basic treatment.

If you are appalled by this disturbing trend, write to your local state and federal legislators and demand they take action to repeal existing refusal clauses. Boycott any doctor or pharmacist who denies treatment based on their own religious or moral agendas.

These doctors and pharmacists are acting unethically, and they should be put out of business and stripped of their licenses.