C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > I recall a suit where a woman was given a referral but sued the > referring doctor for not performing the procedure. I couldn't find a > reference for that one though. >
First of all, I completely separate the 'filing' of a lawsuit and the winning of a lawsuit. Filing is almost completely meaningless. Anybody can file on just about anything they want. If you want to argue tort reform and how this tactic can be used to harass, then there is definitely something to argue about. Especially since it is a very difficult problem where simplistic solutions are just as likely to lead to abuses the other way as doing nothing to fix the problem. Secondly, I can see possible value to such a lawsuit as it relates to the current state of health care in the United States. If a person could freely choose their doctor and change this choice at any time, then there would be no merit to such a suit. But with the way health care and insurance works largely forcing us to choose doctors from limited, approved lists and often making it difficult and time consuming to change these choices or loose the ability to afford health care. I can see where a doctor could affectively hold their moral values over a patient and I hope we agree this would be wrong, either way it might go. > Who's to say that this same attitude won't be pressed by same sex couples? I would say, until such a time as laws and|or policy somehow forces people to be a member if a given church or face drastic consequences then the same attitude would have no merit. And I will even agree that I would fight for the churches rights in this matter if anybody choose to try and do this. I find the 'fear' of this legally remote possibility to be a weak argument against denying rights to a part of our population. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
