We’re not just talking about abortion when we talk about medical professionals who decline to offer (legal) medical care because such care runs counter to their spiritual or ethical beliefs.
Writes Adelle M. Banks at Religion News Service:
” Do we really want co-workers deciding if our religious motivations and reasons are correct?” asked Joan Henriksen Hellyer, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.For example, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities here this month, a panel including Hellyer discussed the disparate dilemmas facing health care workers today, such as:• A housekeeper who refuses to clean an embryonic stem cell lab.• An ultrasound technologist who doesn’t want to work on Saturday.• A respiratory tech who refuses to turn off a ventilator
Dating Jesus 
Depends on if they knew what they were getting into when they accepted the job offer.
For example, the patient care workers at the psychiatric hospital where my wife works, have 12 hour shifts and they work on a strict schedule: two days on, two days off and three days on, three days off.
They knew this schedule when they took the job. So, they can’t kvetch about their schedules.
(BTW, my wife is on the professional staff so works 8 to 4:30 five days a week; she can be a bit flexible with her hours.)
My own spousal unit’s work just went to 24-hours on, then three days off. On light days, that’s an awesome schedule. On busy ones (he’s a firefighter), it’s brutal.
Eek on the 24 hour shift-especially if a major fire breaks out towards the end of the shift. A tired firefighter, or police officer, or airplane pilot, isn’t a good thing.
We agree. I once came home from work a little early and flipped on the local news and there was a man with my husband’s turn-out gear going into a burning house. They wear their last names in bright letters on the back of the fire-retardant clothing they wear into a fire, and that was, in fact, my husband. I normally tell myself that he’s just going off to a boring old office, like mine, but then he comes back smelling like ashes and diesel and I have to readjust.