Are you kidding? their job is to do what you ask and pay them to do. My mother took me to the Dr. to pierce my ears when i was 13 yo. they didn’t have storeclerks doing them back in the day, and she didn’t want me having friends do it with ice and string and the potential infections that were inevitable. she wanted hygienice surroundings.
hygienic.
I could not disagree more with your first sentence. Professionals have the right to refuse to do anything they find objectionable.
No, I wasn’t kidding. I also wasn’t considering what life was like before “ear piercing at the mall” was a common thing.
To me, it would be completely preposterous to ask a doctor or nurse to pierce ears in a maternity ward.
Today.
Maybe 40-50 years ago was a different thing. Or a different culture might have OB/GYN ear piercers as a matter of culture.