The 50th anniversary of The Pill has unleashed a flurry of articles about whether your doctor should have the right to choose NOT to prescribe birth control pills. The goading question in one article was whether family planning was “up to you, your God, or your doctor’s God.” Oh puhleeeezzzzeee!

It seems to me that your doctor should be allowed to withhold prescriptions to which he is philosophically opposed. And, it seems to me you should have a right NOT to go to a doctor whose philosophy doesn’t match yours. In fact, doesn’t it make sense that you’d want to share the same philosophical wavelength with the person who is authorized, permitted and allowed to touch your body in all those private places, ask you all those personal questions, and whose judgment can save your life or kill you?

Now that I think about it, shouldn’t a man over 40 have the right to choose a physician with really thin fingers? (I’m so glad my doc lost 40 pounds.)

These are the deep philosophical things I think about, coupled with analogies that makes sense to me.

Does it work for you?