Chapter 3,141 in the book on "Why Britain is lost"
Dr Pippa Hayes, a Devon GP, has a conscientious objection. She believes couples should restrict their families to two children - and says she would not help to provide fertility treatment for women who want to have exceptionally large families.
Hayes, who underwent sterilisation after the birth of her second son, despite wanting a daughter, believes that large families place an insupportable burden on the planet’s resources. She states her beliefs on the website of her Exeter-based practice.
This weekend she said she would formally decline to help certain patients.
"If a mother of four came to me and said, ‘Will you refer me for fertility treatment so that I can have a fifth baby’, I would say, ‘Sorry, this is something which is against my beliefs, but I suggest you go and see one of my partners’. I believe I would have a right to be a conscientious objector if it happened."
Of course there is a side benefit to what loons like this doctor are doing - by natural selection, lunatics like her will become fewer and fewer in the future.
Darwin would be pleased. Self destruction of the species was never in his agenda.
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Melanie Phillip's response is worth reading.
The more important question, though, is whether a publicly funded medical practictioner actually has the power to exercise such a prerogative (given that the rest of us have seen our civil liberties curtailed almost to vanishing point over the past ten years).
If Dr Pippa Hayes feels so strongly about this issue, then perhaps she should set up in private practice and allow people decide where to take their business.
May you find True Redemption and free yourself from your bigoted, narrow minded, self-indulgent ego-nurturing opinions.
I think that is too strict.
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