Since my name was involked on this, I intend to answer your question in a few days on my site.

However, just a brief note in advance:

Your argument begs the question that dispensing birth-control pills and abortion are morally acceptable. Let’s take something that you view to be objectionable. Let us say that a law is passed that requires teachers to lead their class in a prayer every day. It is considered essential to the moral character of the student, which in turn provides benefits for all of society because such children grow up to be more moral, kinder, less vicious individuals. However, you hear of a teacher who refuses to obey this law, stating that he views it morally objectionable for a teacher to impose a moral view on his students.

Then you come across a blog where somebody writes, “I don’t mind these teachers who refuse to give these students the prayer they need when there is another teacher nearby who can perform this service. However, too often this is not the case, and these students go without prayer.”

This blogger goes on to suggest that teachers who refuse to lead their students in prayer should realize the obligation not to become teachers – to leave the teaching profession in the hands of those who will perform this service.

Now, I think that there is an important difference between the birth control and abortion cases on the one hand, and the prayer case on the other. As a matter of fact (and, yes, I am a firm believer in moral facts) there is nothing immoral in birth control or early abortion (before the fetus aquires desires and, thus, interests), and that leading children in prayer in a public school is in fact morally prohibited.

However, the question rests on whether these actions are right or wrong, not on some idea that people have the right to exercise whatever morality they please. People are not free to adopt whatever moral standards they choose. What of the parent who adopts the standard that a child should be beaten daily, do we allow him to practice his morality simply because his religion tells him to act this way?

These pharmacists and doctors are simply mistaken as to their moral obligations to their patients.

Logos said,
Psychology is just as bad!

You’ve captured my attention. Could you expand on that?