should doctors be forced to perform abortion

No problems; I tend to procrastinate. I feel like I have made my point stating a patients morals and beliefs have to be honored by their physicians. Within reason, yes. A patient may believe they need what would be considered a lethal dose of a medication, it doesn’t mean the doctor should give it to them. This point mainly was shown by preventing a doctor from doing an action instead of performing an operation. I don’t understand what you are saying. Performing an operation is doing an action. In your respond to your statement No one had the right to compel anyone to provide a service. This is true to a point we should not force anyone to become a doctor,but once the choice has been made too become a doctor their responsibility should be too the patient and not their belief. So, should chiropractor be forced to perform acupuncture? A natural remedy should be given instead of antibiotics? An unnecessary surgery, like abortion or plastic surgery, should be mandated to be performed, even if the doctor is reluctant to perform, regardless of the reason? One reason for this stage freight may be ethical/moral dilemma; however, another may be simply keeping a reputation, like a surgeon’s success rate high. For example, they will refuse to give a herion addict a new liver (ethics), or a doctor may think it too soon to operate safely again. If I have cancer and demand chemotherapy EVERY DAY, the doctor must give it to me, right? Doctors are currently compelled to treat their patients regardless of their beliefs. False; doctors are to treat their patients to the best of their abilities using their judgment. Take the following example: A woman and man walk into the doctor’s office; she wants an abortion. While stating this, she sighs, and speaks nervously and reluctantly. She has a black eye, bruises on her arm, and keeps looking at the man before she answers any question. The doctor believes the woman does not want an abortion, but the abusive boyfriend does. Should he act against what he believes is in the best interest of his patient? He can make a referral, but this doctor should not be forced to perform an elective operation that he believes the patient does not truly want. Both the ethical opinions and legal precedents agree that a physician may not intentionally and unilaterally sever an existing relationship with any patient, unless the physician provides reasonable notice to the patient, in writing, and sufficient time to locate another physician. Since abortion is common and not life threatening, refusal to perform one does not violate this rule. Furthermore, refusing (or inability) to perform any one service is not “unilaterally sever[ing]” an existing relationship, as the doctor will still perform other medical services. Otherwise, an OB-GYN should be expected to perform open-heart surgery and/or diagnose a skin disease. Failure of the physician to continue to provide care when the patient remains in need of care or failure to provide notice and an adequate opportunity physician before the physician terminates the physician/patient relationship can be construed as the physician"s abandonment of the patient or dereliction of the physician"s duty if injury results. In addition to being exposed to liability for any damages that are caused by the abandonment or the breach of duty, the disciplinary action under the states medical practice act. In Pennsylvania, a physicians abandonment of a patient can result in disciplinary action exposure to civil liability (1) Again, the patient is not in NEED of care, as abortion is an elective operation. 2. The Hippocratic Oath. I reviewed your source that you provided and I would recommend you review this again. The source that you quoted is out of date and no longer used. The article you quoted specifically states the Hippocratic oath that Med students now take do not include any statement forbidding abortions. (2) Fair enough, but it still states they must rely on judgment, and they are not to overtreat a patient. This implies that they can refuse a service based on their judgment, so why is abortion, an elective operation, immune to such criticism? Should a doctor perform an abortion, if they believe the patient is not able to cope with the consequences? -Pro has made a case to force a doctor to perform an abortion to save the patient’s life, but that is not the debate; there has not been a compelling argument to compel a doctor to perform an elective operation. Pro has made a case to honor the patient's wishes, but this, too, is not the debate. The debate is whether a doctor MUST perform a specific surgery. The fact that a patient requests it is not enough to demand action. Abortion is not life-threatening, and patients do not have carte blanche over what the doctor does (e. g. cannot demand a specific medication in a specified dosage). Abortion, in necessity, is no different than a boob job. If a doctor feels uneasy, regardless of the reason, he should not be compelled to operate in either circumstance.