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niyad

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Sat Jan 2, 2016, 01:35 PM Jan 2016

Mean ACLU Won’t Let Hospital Refuse Ladyparts Care For Jesus Reasons [View all]

how is that even fair?


Mean ACLU Won’t Let Hospital Refuse Ladyparts Care For Jesus Reasons


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probably easier than a lawsuit, honestly

One day, we will make it big and be rolling in money. Haha not from blogging, silly. Dealing drugs, maybe, or trafficking in delicious baby parts. When we do, we are gonna donate so much monies to the good people at the ACLU, which just will not stop suing the living shit out of Catholic hospitals for failing to provide basic reproductive health care to people with lady parts.

On Tuesday, the ACLU of Northern California filed a lawsuit against creepy creepy Dignity Health, a chain of Catholic hospitals based out of San Francisco. Why is the ACLU all up in Catholicism’s business this time? Because their hospital in beautiful Redding, California, Mercy Medical Center, won’t let a perfectly nice lady get a tubal ligation, because of Jesus.
The woman, Rebecca Chamorro, 33, of Redding, has two children and is due to give birth to her third by cesarean section in late January. She and her husband say they have decided not to have more children, and their doctor has agreed to perform the tubal ligation immediately after delivery, when the operation is most commonly carried out.

Mercy Medical Center, the only hospital with a delivery room in at least a 70-mile radius of where Chamorro lives, sent a letter to her doctor in September saying the operation violated the “ethical and religious directives” that govern Catholic hospitals. Ah, yes. The “ethical and religious directives that govern Catholic hospitals.” Let us provide you with a helpful translation: “We don’t care about women even a little bit because we’re basically repulsed by their bodies, unless they are shoving out a baby, in which case, cool.”

Now, why does this lady need to tie off some of her lady parts while she is birthing her baby? Because that is ideally when it is done, stupid.
Chamorro wants her tubal ligation done in the hospital during her scheduled C-section to save the time, cost and potential trauma of a second surgery. […] It’s considered more cost-effective to do the procedure after a C-section, when a woman’s abdomen is open and she’s under anesthesia.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/597438/mean-aclu-wont-let-hospital-refuse-ladyparts-care-for-jesus-reasons#Hddle3dwPgef3X0Z.99

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Tough sell for the ACLU SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #1
possibly. but it is far past time that the woman-hating catholic church either gets out niyad Jan 2016 #2
Agreed SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #3
Then everybody will have to drive 70 miles. rug Jan 2016 #4
possibly. or possibly we can get some decent health care. niyad Jan 2016 #5
Do you know why there are no public hospitals in the area? rug Jan 2016 #6
no. do you? niyad Jan 2016 #7
No. Religion aside, that's the fundamental problem. rug Jan 2016 #9
I do. It's because they've all been bought up by catholic hospitals. cleanhippie Jan 2016 #21
Well, that is certainly one possible reason (actually, I think it is in their charter). jonno99 Jan 2016 #27
No. Once again, when it comes to the RCC, he nailed it. rug Jan 2016 #45
Oh well n/t SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #8
No, it is not a tough sell... ljm2002 Jan 2016 #14
That's why I think SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #16
Agreed... ljm2002 Jan 2016 #17
My point about the goverment money SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #19
Yes and your point is well taken... ljm2002 Jan 2016 #22
As a Catholic I will say that any hospital taking their position pnwmom Jan 2016 #41
And that's a valid position SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #48
Does the hospital take government money? If it does it should comply with government rules. hobbit709 Jan 2016 #43
Here's the Complaint: rug Jan 2016 #10
thank you for that information. yes, the hospital should lose. niyad Jan 2016 #11
why stop at women's reproductive services? sweetapogee Jan 2016 #25
No argument here. rug Jan 2016 #31
You think we should put a trauma hospital within a 5 minute drive to every citizen? pnwmom Jan 2016 #42
Exactly SickOfTheOnePct Jan 2016 #49
LOLWUT? XemaSab Jan 2016 #56
Applying religous law to medicine is like using Holy Water for waterboarding. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2016 #12
Wow - can I borrow this? jonno99 Jan 2016 #26
Feel free. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2016 #29
Sorry, which was the Gospel verse where Jesus denounced tubal ligations? Nye Bevan Jan 2016 #13
Psalm 127:3-5 rug Jan 2016 #15
Psalm's are not gospel. They hold no theological value other than they are beautiful. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #24
Sorry, I'm not a red letter guy. rug Jan 2016 #32
Not sure what you mean by red letter guy. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #34
It's the Bible that prints all of Jesus' words in red type. rug Jan 2016 #35
Haven't run across those. I usually stay with NIV. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #36
Some would argue that it was considered pretty good in it's day...nt jonno99 Jan 2016 #54
It was actually written in an out-of-date style for even the 1600s. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #55
I guess we got off topic. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #37
That quote from Psalms is the basis for the Quiverfull (Duggars) movement. rug Jan 2016 #38
He also broke from contemporary Jewish law in his teachings. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #39
Religion is a way to live not a rule to follow. rug Jan 2016 #40
You practice a religion by following its rules. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #47
You are describing magic or chemistry. rug Jan 2016 #50
Not what I was talking about at all. NutmegYankee Jan 2016 #52
For me, the good thief on the cross is what religion boils down to. rug Jan 2016 #53
St. John's in St. Louis (now Mercy Hospital) Moral Compass Jan 2016 #18
This is part of the reason why my fiancee and I, when we do try for a child, are going to... Humanist_Activist Jan 2016 #20
That's why we let it go Moral Compass Jan 2016 #28
I've heard nothing but good about Barnes-Jewish. xmas74 Jan 2016 #30
Yeah, my fiancee is going to go there in a couple of weeks for hip surgery... Humanist_Activist Jan 2016 #51
Interestingly, the Jewish hospital systems were a reaction to anti-semitism in the hospital industry rug Jan 2016 #33
It was 1957. Our family GP was also Mom's OB/GYN. And Catholic. Hekate Jan 2016 #23
Great post, Hekate. Thanks. n/t pnwmom Jan 2016 #44
You are welcome. I believe that if we don't tell the stories of our mothers and ourselves... Hekate Jan 2016 #46
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