RE: Fetuses are people. Unless it costs the church money
February 9, 2013 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2013 at 8:01 pm by Something completely different.)
(February 9, 2013 at 7:52 pm)Gabriel Syme Wrote: You say:
Quote:a catholic hospital refused to give a rape victim treatment
the link says: (my emphasis)
Quote:A 25-year-old possible rape victim was reportedly refused a basic exam at two Catholic hospitals in Cologne last month. The Church says the impression that rape victims can't be treated at Catholic hospitals is "false."
If a "possible rape victim" was really refused treatment at a Catholic hospital, then we can be sure that the media would be as unequivocal in stating this as you were.
I suspect the "possible rape victim" was not a rape victim, and so declined an examination, rather than was turned away.
The media do put out a lot of biased negative propaganda about the Catholic Church, it is disappointing how easy it is for them to influence people.
Words like "reportedly", "apparently", "seemed to", etc should be a dead giveaway to people.
Reports containing such words are not making statements of fact, they are promoting malicious gossip.
"Possible" rape victim because she woke up in a park her pants gone.
It was revailed that she had been under the influence of a date rape drug. The hospital is obliged by german law to not give any further information to the public about if the victim was actualy raped.
Fact is, the catholic hospital refused to give her the treatment she needed.
She had to go to a protestant hospital to receive the treatment she needed.
I know this pritty well because it was last weeks to reported scandal here and arroused alot of anger. And a debate came up wether catholic hospitals should be nationalised or ghanded ove under protestant administration or privatised.
This is not just my opinion, the catholic church in Germany officialy appologised for it`s behavior accepting that id had done wrong by not giving the woman treatment.
nothing tabloidish or media overhyped in that story.
Exactly the oposite, the story broke after some good old investigative journalism and a complaint by the doctor from the protestant hospital
