MICHIGAN: Doctor Refuses To Treat Child Of Lesbian Couple Because Jesus

[ronburgundy]

On the bright side, before the doctor did this, she was already an irrational nut job willing to apply her faith to her medical profession, so it is good that she isn't their doctor anymore, and other patients can now find out and switch from this dangerous nutjob. .

There's no evidence that she holds her religious beliefs higher than medical science in her professional dealings with babies. Just in her selection of patients to accept.

I mean, it's possible the midwife's recommendation was based on a nasty demon possession she saw the doctor cure, or how she improved someone's milk production with a lark's tongue cleansing ritual, but there's nothing here to indicate she's a nutjob.

There are no compartments in the brain, and thus none in the mind. The way a person thinks and decides about one thing is a strong predictor of how they do so in others. The decision on whether to see a patient is a professional and medical one, not just a personal one. Thus, she has proven she will use irrational nutjob notions and methods to make professional decisions that impact her patients. There is plenty of room in medical practice for scientific uncertainty and ambiguity, which are the gaps into which bias and unreason seep into decision making. It is rational not to trust the medical judgment of such a person.

 

[jab]

Um, he was conceived out of wedlock, but by the time of the cesus trip and the manger, Jo and Mary, it seems, are wedlocked.

 

[Keith&Co.]

There are no compartments in the brain, and thus none in the mind. The way a person thinks and decides about one thing is a strong predictor of how they do so in others.

Not necessarily. people have blind spots. Plenty of people who are quite competent to avoid scams and frauds and cons on the street lose all discretion when the con has a cross stamped upon it. Otherwise rational and independent women who lose that independence in the face of an abusive spouse. And people who would find abusive parents absolute abominations will make apologies for their god doing the same thing, because, you know, God. Plenty of scientists are believers, they just don't take their god to the lab when they work.

We don't really know this doc's thought process, how she came to the decision she did. Since the decision seems inconsistent with the couple's first interview with her, i suspect it's political more than religious.
There's no evidence here that she's ever let her religion inform a treatment.