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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 24 May 2015 08:33:19AM *  -1 points [-]

Performing abortions requires special skills.

Performing euthanasia (or, as in your other example, cooking kosher meals) doesn't? Baking cakes for gay weddings does?

(FWIW, I don't think that bakers should be forbidden by law from refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings.)

Thus it would make no sense to force doctors who aren't trained for the procedure to perform it.

The fact is, I heard that in said major European country you sometimes get the same doctor refusing to perform abortions in public hospitals ostensibly for moral/religious reasons but who has no trouble whatsoever with them in their own private practice.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 25 May 2015 05:19:13AM 1 point [-]

Performing euthanasia doesn't?

Not really, at least giving someone an overdose of pain meds requires a lot less skill then performing an abortion.

Baking cakes for gay weddings does?

It doesn't. That's why the government is forcing bakers to do it.