Yeah luckily she can still go to other hospitals but if you live in places like Philippines you can forget it unless you can pay large price in maybe three private hospitals, because all of them are Catholic. Same with vasectomy. Abortion is against the law.
Or take El Salvador, where abortion is also illegal under all circumstances. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The moment a woman shows up at a hospital with a perforated uterus, indicating that she has had a back-alley abortion, she is shackled to her hospital bed and her body is treated as a crime scene. There are women now serving prison sentences thirty years long for terminating their pregnancies. in a country that also stigmatizes the use of contraception as a sin against God.
So since everyone's favorite asshole, Pope Francis, is coming in US soon he'll probably talk how abortion and contraception should be illegal, similarly to 1999 when Pope John Paul II, who declared, on a visit to Mexico City in 1999, that "the church must proclaim the Gospel of life and speak out with prophetic force against the culture of death. May the continent of hope also be the continent of life!" which is thought that helped Archbishop of San Salvador to outlaw abortion.
I mean certainly Catholic church does not have that big influence in US but still he'll probably stir some shit with rednecks that think alike. Maybe he'll go to that hospital kiss everything in it.
Or take El Salvador, where abortion is also illegal under all circumstances. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The moment a woman shows up at a hospital with a perforated uterus, indicating that she has had a back-alley abortion, she is shackled to her hospital bed and her body is treated as a crime scene. There are women now serving prison sentences thirty years long for terminating their pregnancies. in a country that also stigmatizes the use of contraception as a sin against God.
So since everyone's favorite asshole, Pope Francis, is coming in US soon he'll probably talk how abortion and contraception should be illegal, similarly to 1999 when Pope John Paul II, who declared, on a visit to Mexico City in 1999, that "the church must proclaim the Gospel of life and speak out with prophetic force against the culture of death. May the continent of hope also be the continent of life!" which is thought that helped Archbishop of San Salvador to outlaw abortion.
I mean certainly Catholic church does not have that big influence in US but still he'll probably stir some shit with rednecks that think alike. Maybe he'll go to that hospital kiss everything in it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
