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Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 4:30 pm
A pregnant woman wanted her tubes tied. Her Catholic hospital said no.
It was painful to hear but ultimately seemed the best course to Jessica Mann and her family. Because of a dangerous tumor in her brain, her doctor gently suggested that she take steps to make sure that she could not get pregnant again.
So Mann, 33, who is due to have her third baby next month, decided that while she was under anesthesia during the birth, she would undergo a tubal ligation — a procedure that would prevent further pregnancies.
But her hospital said no. Genesys Regional Medical Center, which is Catholic, denied the request on religious grounds: Catholic mandates forbid procedures that cause sterilization, including vasectomies, and officials said she did not qualify for an exception.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a set of ethical and religious directives for Catholic hospitals that bar the institutions from promoting contraceptives, providing abortions, or doing procedures with no other intention but to sterilize the patient, such as a vasectomy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...story.html
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"
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 4:48 pm
I haven't heard of this. For crying out loud, she's about to have her third child. How many kids do you expect someone to have?
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 4:55 pm by Shining_Finger.)
(September 14, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I haven't heard of this. For crying out loud, she's about to have her third child. How many kids do you expect someone to have?
40 and Counting if they are a True Christian.
Bitch please, that isn't the freaking half of it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/do-deep...lpractice/
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 5:09 pm
She has a brain tumor and that isn't enough to get her an exemption from their stupid rule on sterilization?
What, they want more orphans, right?? RIGHT????
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 5:19 pm
(September 14, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: (September 14, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: I haven't heard of this. For crying out loud, she's about to have her third child. How many kids do you expect someone to have?
40 and Counting if they are a True Christian.
Bitch please, that isn't the freaking half of it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/do-deep...lpractice/
Oh my freaking fuck no! Seriously, this is fucked up. They will recommend a dangerous, permanently debilitating procedure THAT ALSO STILL KILLS THE BABY, just because the Vatican said no to the medicine that is an aborficent. ??? This makes no sense at all.
Sorry, it's my time of the month and I'm feeling foul. Fuckity fucking stupid fucking people have no business being in medicine if they can't PRACTICE modern medicine. And the Vatican is buying more and more hospitals....obviously in an attempt to get around secular laws by imposing their beliefs on people this way instead. If they buy enough hospitals, people won't have any options.
So...angry. GRRR
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 5:27 pm
I can't believe anyone would ban the use of antibiotics. Part of the reason the present day is so much better than the past is because of modern medicine. Do I have to find the clip of Bill Maher ranting about the harm religion does? I'll do it!
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 5:55 pm
As far as I'm concerned, if a hospital refuses to treat a patient, and refuses the patient's wishes (a broad statement, I know, and of course, there are exemptions to what the patient's wishes are) should be investigated and have it's licence pulled.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 6:06 pm
I wonder how many surgeries they've done to repair the assholes of altar boys?
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 6:08 pm
Oh please! If remember quite clearly, Catholics weren't so against sterilization during WWII!
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RE: Catholic hospital refuses to tie woman's tubes
September 14, 2015 at 6:14 pm
How the hell can a hospital be Catholic??
I can just about get my head around a Christian university but a hospital?
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