It is a human. They should be all treated the same unless the patient requests.
To do anything else is immoral rot.
What next, denial of treatment to someone you don't like? Or someone who committed a crime?
Sorry, I don't treat shoplifters, your cancer is God telling you that you did wrong
America has gone loony.
There is a huge difference between offering to treat only those whom you like, and offering to do only the types of procedures you believe are "good".
We have rightly outlawed the former for many categories of supposed goodness/badness. But forcing people to start performing new treatments that are the societal cause du jour that would not previously have been part of their job description is quite arguably federalized slavery. The goalposts will never stop shifting, so either swear eternal and unwavering fealty to the state or go find a different job?
It's quite rich when a forum of techies who mostly can find a well-paying job doing almost nothing of lasting value for anyone can find time to judge medical professionals who improve people's health on a daily basis because of a difference of opinion about the job description of those healthcare professionals.
They're no doctor to me. I'd be disgusted with that action. IMHO that isn't the doctor's decision. The only decision is, will this improve or extend the patient's quality of life and abide by the patient's consent?
The government or medical regulators should make the decisions for the entire industry EXACTLY so these decisions are not left to the medical professional. Their opinion on what's moral or not should not come into it.
Don't compare tech jobs with medicine. Yes, I can decide not to work in defense because I don't want to help build machines that kill. That's a moral decision.
A doctor is making decisions that often relate to immediate, critical and long-lasting actions to other humans. Other people.
The US medical system does it's best to devalue human life, so this isn't a shock.
What if you were denied medical treatment based on a moral disagreement by a medical professional? Maybe they were a different religion to you, and found helping you would damage their chances at going to their afterlife?
To get there, they're going to help you on your way to yours.
While the law tries to make it so it isn't always case-by-case, but rather allows broad exclusion ... the outcome is the same.
Ultimately, this is cultural cleansing. Conform, or be punished.
The lack of compassion and tolerance is sickening. This is far-right conservatism dressed up as liberalism.
Again, standard US.
I'd imagine that in the case of religious discretion, their God would judge them harshly.