Religion
Related: About this forumHere's another case of a Catholic hospital interfering with patient care
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-catholic-hospital-interfering-with-medical-care-20160108-column.htmlThat's the medical standard of care for tubal ligations: The safest way to perform the procedure is immediately after delivery, in order to avoid a second surgical procedure under anesthesia. Chamorro's physician, Samuel Van Kirk, asked for authorization from her hospital, Mercy Medical Center in Redding.
The hospital turned him down. Not because its administrators thought the procedure was medically unwise, dangerous or illegal, but because it violates the Catholic religious principles to which the hospital's owner, Dignity Health, subscribes. Although the letter denying Chamorro's procedure came from Mercy's vice president for medical affairs, James De Soto M.D., the rules he cited -- the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services -- were produced not by a medical body, but by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Chamorro's case underscores a developing crisis in American healthcare, which is tied to the evolution of Catholic hospital chains into a major provider of medical services -- and the sole provider of some services in some communities. Although Mercy Medical is one of three hospitals in Redding, it's the only one with a labor and delivery ward. The next closest option is 70 miles away.
Forcing everyone to abide by your ridiculous religious rules is unacceptable.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)It is not a sin to have your tubes tide. Well I guess they need to pick another hospital then. They have time.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Or even the safety of her child.
Stunning to see such anti-woman, anti-progressive sentiments on a liberal message board, yes indeed.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)There's no 'reading into it' at all. Your words are crystal clear.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)to the next nearest hospital. No problem at all. As long as she doesn't have any problems. And labor is longer than an hour. Really no big deal. Gosh, what's wrong with us, objecting to this?
rug
(82,333 posts)If you weren't blinded by your anti-Catholic hatred and were half as much a proponent of women's rights as you posture, you'd at the very least type an indignant post about it.
(BTW, the answer is OB malpractice raters.)
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Just saying that the RCC does view that as a sin. Sometimes a lot of people want to think the RCC is this wonderfully progressive organization that is moving ahead with the times.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)The world is full of descendants of refugees who faced either conversion to catholosism or death if they remained in their homeland. But, of course we must believe that it's really the Christians who are persecuted.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)to due to distance?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)"Tough shit, because religious rights are more important than anyone's healthcare."
I didn't know we had Hobby Lobby fans on DU.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)Remember THAT gem?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Even if the dispenser of that progressive advice is lost at sea.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)they are doing such wonderful things by offering health care where nobody else can or will.
rug
(82,333 posts)Stammering but, but, but... hardly addresses the issue.
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)...because the Catholic organization BOUGHT THEM or took over their management through some deal they struck.
And if anyone else was buying up hospitals, becoming the sole health care provider in a region, and then restricting the services they permitted doctors to perform in their facilities you would probably be having less of a hard time seeing the problem.
http://www.propublica.org/article/catholic-hospitals-grow-and-with-them-questions-of-care
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)SOUP KITCHENS!!!!
Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)That is becoming a reality for many people. Even if they control a town/county, what happens to those without the means to travel?
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)can just travel to another state for an abortion?
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Women just need to expect to give up their full reproductive rights to accommodate the whims of various religions.
Objecting to that makes one an intolerant anti-theist bigot, or so I've heard.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Religious, economic, gender, racial, it's a veritable perfect storm of ignorance.
rug
(82,333 posts)Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)Bigotry at its worst. Oppressing women at their most vulnerable, not to mention the baby.