She said that she didn’t know at the time that the hospital was Catholic and that it was religious doctrine that was making them repeatedly turn her away. Do you think the nurses were telling her that she could get treatment if she went somewhere else? Not likely, because then they would be complicit in helping her…

It’s easy to just say, “Find a way to pay” when you aren’t the one looking at a couple thousand dollars, if not a full five figures. Additionally, that assumes that she could get a ride that far away, which also costs money. And if she had kids, she would need to find childcare. On top of that, she is pregnant, sick,…

Threatening to cut funding unless they adhere to scientific principles instead of religous doctrines seems like a pretty good idea.

This is something my HS history teacher said when his wife had gone through a literal life-threatening pregnancy. “If I have to choose between my wife or the baby...fuck the Church. I’m saving my wife.” (I also can’t imagine a HS teacher discussing shit like this in 2016. Hooray for the early 90s!)

And I think that allowing a religious organization qua employer dictate the morality of its employees is a bad idea. The withheld moneys don’t have to come from Medicare funds, it could be loss of tax-exempt status for medical properties and profits. Which brings me back to the state run option. We are already paying…

The religion is founded on a very deeply held belief that women are guilty of sin. All sin. Any sin. If the baby is dying it’s because she did something or wrong or because the vessel itself is evil and will always be evil. Feminism and catholicism cannot coexist.

Especially with this specific dogma. There’s a reason I’m episcopalian. You can get an abortion and then get your tubes tied while you hold your wife’s hand and then go to church that Sunday where your wife will preach the sermon because that’s how we roll, because it’s 20-fucking-16.

that’s what nationalization is for. if catholics don’t want people in their employ practicing medicine, they should be forced to turn over their hospitals to people who will.

I always find it interesting that Jesus said nothing about abortion, even though abortion was common at the time. I take that to mean that he cared much more about us treating each other with love and compassion, (something he did talk explicitly about) instead of being total asshats like these fuckers.

I ended up in a Catholic hospital for about 5 days after an accident. At the time I was on BC pills to treat a hormone imbalance. I told them about it, and they said they couldn’t give them to me, that they didn’t even carry them in the hospital. My then-spouse had to bring my script from home so I could continue…

Or the Feds could do what they’ve been doing to strong arm states for years and make the money contingent on the facilities providing standard gynecological services as recommended by the OB-GYN council. Or we could agree that healthcare is a good that is not best produced by a market mechanism (which I sorta suspect…

This was a great segment. In fact I fucking love her show. But let me tell you. I follow Huffpost women on fb and they shared an article about how she got on trump about his debate abortion comment. I saw so many men commenting on there what a whore, skank, bitch, cunt, snatch, ugly and foreign chick she was...I was…

I just don’t get how some of these policies can’t be construed as malpractice. Legally, can these hospitals be protected under religious freedom?

My mom, before Roe v Wade, had a midterm miscarriage. Because it was illegal, the hospital wouldn’t remove the dead fetus, instead, they gave her drugs to induce labor. She had to wait to give go into labor to deliver a dead fetus., in the the ward with all the women having live births.

In many mid-size and smaller cities, CHS operate the only hospitals to serve the uninsured and indigent. Which means in cases like this, the women they force to continue unviable pregnancies have no means to seek another option.

A similar thing happened to a woman in my family. Her baby was 100% dying but the state law said she had to be sick ENOUGH for an abortion. How sick is that? The doctor didn’t know. He was frustrated. His hands were tied. He had to cut it as close as he could. So she carried a dying baby while getting sicker and…

It’s infuriating that there are countries in Europe who have an official declared religion, Catholicism, who don’t pull this type of crap in their hospitals. This is all coming from the bishops here in the States. They literally don’t care if these women live or die, they just want to treat anything related to a…

Because, when you get right down to it, who makes better ethical decisions than the Catholic church?

Forget the pissing contest stories, this is more terrifying than any campfire ghost tale.

“We didn’t have an armoire.”