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I was rather surprised to see J Train in the comments at Pandagon whip this out

Shouldn’t this kind of thing put a doctor’s medical license in jeopardy?

I can’t imagine why. In general, unless a patient’s life or health is in immediate danger (and pregnancy doesn’t count), he’s under no obligation to write any prescription for anything. It’s his choice to make, just as it’s my choice to find another doctor, or (in my case) to not refer any of my patients to him.

Now why this logic surprised me, especially from someone who says they’re a doctor, is because this logic means that, due to how a person will not drop down dead immeidately upon contracting HIV, any time critical medications that could be used to stop a person contracting the virus in a short period of time immediately after they’re been exposed to potential infection is something which doctors are allowed to refuse their patients, even if refusing them and referring them on will lead to their patient contracting HIV.

But of course it is in fact perfectly moral silly heads. We know this because people who are very adamant about telling us that they’re Not, I repeat, NOT, Moral Relativists (and are definately not kantian nihilists) like those Dirty Jews Godless Liberals, also happen to hold the view that they are allowed to take away a women’s access to medication that will stop them suffering a life threatening medical condition, because they do not understand that there is a difference between an abortifacient and a contraceptive.

Cue Scientologist Pharmacists and Doctors refusing to prescribe anti-psych meds to schizaphrenics because they believe that mental illness is the result of psychic aliens. Sweet Chocolate Cthulhu (who commands me to take Plan B after I have a condom malfunction btw) forbid we let actual medical knowledge get in the way of made up theology now

And of course, the teeny tiny, ever so slight, basic medical fact that Plan B is not, never was, and will never be, an abortifacient is why of course I was some what perplexed by the next comment by J Train:

Is there any way we can send these pricks a complimentary copy of the Hypocratic (not hypocritic) Oath, as in FIRST DO NO HARM?

Oddly enough, the original Hippocratic Oath (which does not contain the line about doing no harm) includes a very specific line about not giving anything to produce an abortion. (Not to conflate abortion and Plan B.) This is one of the many reasons why the Oath is very archaic and is almost never used in its original form.

Emphasis mine because it’s just Sooo delicious, “Let me conflate Plan B and Abortion (Though I wouldn’t want to conflate Plan B and abortion or anything)”, Thank you Doctor J for that, do not let your blithering be affect by the fact that, due to the original Hypocratic Oath (not to be confused with any of the other, more modern Hypocratic Aaths, which do not, like women’s right to personhood, exist thanks to the wonders of sperm magic) having a strict prohibition against abortion, that stopping a woman from obtaining a contraceptive, like Plan B, is also prohibited, please.

Now no doubt some will object to pregnancy being compared to HIV though, and you would have a slight point, pregnancy is much less deadly than HIV, or Small Pox, or the 1918 flu pandemic, it is, I must admit, truly a pussy cat compared to many hideously deadly illnesses.

And to qualify that and to paraphrase Marx even; if by “people”, you mean rich white women with medical insurance, then it kills nearly no one at all.

If, however, you mean actual people, with functioning brains and everything, then it kills a few hundred women a year, in america, disproportionally black women too, and in fact kills women in an inverse proportion to how much pre-natal care they can afford during the pregnancy.

Which I believe, if my math holds, is slightly more than, say, erectile dysfuntion.

But again, I come up agaist the great wall of logic which means that medical decisions that are made doctors who actively refuse to accept modern medical facts, preferring instead an ad hoc made up reality in which Plan B dismembers and feeds to Joe Lieberman proto-humanoid lifeforms, and favors this pan-medical view in such a way that it threatens the life of their patients even, are not in any way criminally negligent.

Any Lawyers in the house? Is there a reason why we can’t sue (or whatever) a doctor for reckless endangerment or some such, given that this bullshit will eventually lead to some women who’s ethics do not allow her to abort, dying during an otherwise avoidable pregnancy? If neccesary we can declare this attack on women’s bodily autonomy “pornographic” and set Zombie Andrea Dworkin on it, but seriously, this seems like something we could work through the courts to defeat, why aren’t we?