A Critical Analysis Of Dispensing Morality By Ellen Goodman

In "Dispensing Morality" (2005), Ellen Goodman asserts that she wants people to have strong moral grounds ("To each his own conscience...") but they have to understand other people’s moral grounds and priorities and not meddle into other people’s personal lives ("But the drugstore is not an altar. The last time I looked, the pharmacist’s license did not include the right to dispense morality."). Goodman illuminates how conscience clauses starts to increasingly empower and gives people opportunities to make choices based on their moral beliefs to the point of inconveniencing people; It starts with laws of exempting doctors in 47 states who don’t perform abortions which the author believes is fair as “Doctors are not automatons who leaves their