Letters to the Editor
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Licensure
I, too, am apparently on the wrong side of this thing; most of the posts here are rabidly pro-"life" and, I fear, have misread the article and completely misunderstood the real issue. But it seems to me that there's a defining issue here that seems to be missed by many who line up on one side or the other of this thing, and it's this:
The technicians who perform these procedures are physicians. Every doctor in this country is licensed by the state he or she lives in. Presumably (and hopefully) the various Boards and Committees that bestow licensure on these Doctors have certified that the licensee's judgement is to be respected and trusted. Since when do we allow the judgement of lay people (like the Supremes) to overcome the judgement of scientists?
Since the rise to power of people that believe in an invisible man in the sky, I guess. Let's hope that someone's reading of a story written in the second century and repeatedly copied over centuries by increasingly mischevious scribes doesn't include a ban on open heart surgery.