New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills
New York clerk again refuses to enforce Texas judgment against doctor who provided abortion pills
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True story.
One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.
The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn't want to carry her rapist's baby.
Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.
This is the reality
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"
Lots of hospitals were started by churches.
One of Texas's biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it's just another hospital. The church doesn't get any of the money or anything.
Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won't do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.
I'm not religious in the slightest, but in my experience, them Methodists seem pretty chill. Worked with one to make their website a while a back and their pastor was the most laid back, easy to work with dude, loved everyone, black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans, whatever. I miss that guy.
Be careful now.
The methodist church had a schism recently. There's the "United Methodist" and the new "Global Methodist."
The Global Methodist church was founded specifically to exclude gay people. They also have much smaller apportionments (church's equivalent of taxes that the individual churches pay to the organization and is used for things like relief work), and allow the congregations to directly hore and fire clergy so the preachers can't get all uppity and tell them not to be prejudiced or to be kind or welcoming to people who aren't like you.
Ahhh, interesting. These guys were United Methodists, if that wasn't obvious haha.
The split didn't happen until 2024.
The cool thing was, when the biggot-wing left, the United Methodists were able to finally fully embrace inclusion!
Methodists are also okay with women being pastors/priests/preachers. They're also pretty good at begging everyone for money.
The old pastor retired and just so happened to have been replaced by a woman! I don't know her personally like I did him, but every time I drive by, her messages out on the front board are always full of the same positivity and tongue and cheek shit I actually look forward to reading.
Unlike the other churches around that are like "you better pray or you're going to hell" and other threatening garbage.
The Methodist Church has always been staunchly anti-gay. Some are trying to change it, but the bigotry remains.
It seems the United Methodists are the more tolerant ones compared to the Global Methodists? I'm not sure, like I said, I'm not religious in any sense and by and large avoid this world. Apologies for any ignorance on my side. My experience is entirely anecdotal. The only thing I can truly say with full confidence is that this one particular church was a generally decent and tolerant group of people.
I grew up Methodist, although it never took with me. I always thought it was a fairly tolerant sect, until they started going after the gays. I'm not gay, but I have lots of friends and family who are, and I won't tolerate any intolerance toward them. Not that I'd be considering ever going to church again, but if I were, Methodists would be off the list.
The Seventh Day Adventists also have a shit ton of hospitals, the largest among the Protestant denominations iirc. You’ve probably heard of the Kellogg families impact on things like popularizing circumcision…
SDAs also have a substantial impact on the modern conspiracy theory landscape. The cult at Waco was an offshoot, Bill Cooper incorporated their propaganda in his weirdo narrative, if you live in the US you’ve probably got their book mailed about the “Sunday Law”….
Advent owns most of the Hospitals and urgent care facilities in my area. Walking through the hospital, there are a constant religious references. One has a huge painting of a person dying in bed, their family and doctor gathered around, with a brightly painted and shining Jesus among them.
I've got a problem with a hospital who still considers divine intervention to be a viable medical strategy. What is this, the fucking Middle Ages?
Fun facts (they are not fun):
After a forced stay in their psych ward, my local Catholic Hospital asked me if I "felt the light of god during [my] stay?" They also don't prescribe birth control and have a general hate-boner for having to help fat women. I had to teach my doctor what a trans person is and how to address one (this decade).
Anyway, they bought all the medical buildings in all the towns near me. Woo!
Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
In the olden days in Europe, medicine was almost exclusively the responsibility of the religious leaders, since a large portion of medicine is death, and death is a religion's bread & butter.
High-ranking people knew to supplement their monk doctors with a military-experienced battlefield medic, who knew how to treat serious injuries with actual medical treatment, and not just prayers.
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
"Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!"
What's a Catholic hospital? It is a scram!
Is that a number 7?
There's a lot of Catholic-owned hospitals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_health_care
Religion is a monstrous evil.
Sorry to ask, but if such a place didn’t want to dispense it, why would they have it? Am I not understanding something about pharmacies here?
They should have it for the same reason they should have aspirin its called for.
