Despite being able to own a gun as an individual, you (if you are a doctor) are not allowed to own/dispense your own opinion, in fact, a court has decided for you. Disingeniously, the South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long claimed, “The bottom line is if the state Legislature orders a professional to tell the truth, that’s not a violation of the First Amendment.”
It is, in fact, a violation of the First Amendment.
To force a doctor to say “that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” is not only unconstitutional and immoral, but wrong in just about every sense of the word.
It is, in fact, a violation of a doctor’s right to practice medicine.
If a doctor does not believe this to be true, if he does not believe that removing a fertilized embryo from a woman is not the terminiation of life of a “living human being” then he cannot be forced to say so. Even if he did believe this to be true, that abotion = murder, a law cannot compell him to say so to a patient. The government has no right to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship.
It is, in fact, a violation of the right for consenting adults to partake in a capitalistic act.
If patients wanted to hear that abortion was murder, they would go to doctors who believed so and said so and those doctors who did not believe this to be true and did not tell their patients would have less patients, thus less customers, and thus less of the market. Thus the population of doctors would be slowly but surely replaced by those that believed abortion is killing rather than the those that did not. And all of this would be accomplished without the intervention of the State.
It is, in fact, up to the patients and the doctors to decide what they want to discuss, not the State, nor any other third party.
