A lot of people know that Catholic hospitals won’t perform abortions, but fewer know how radical that policy is. Even if you set aside elective abortions, patients who have ectopic pregnancies (and whose lives are at risk) would be in danger if they went to a Catholic institution.
A normal hospital could give that patient a drug to induce an abortion... or just remove that fertilized egg through surgery. Not Catholic hospitals, though. They might make doctors remove a woman’s entire fallopian tube to prevent something fatal, reducing her ability to get pregnant in the future, even though it’smedically unnecessary, because that’s what their faith dictates.
What if a woman has a miscarriage? That’s already emotionally draining, but Catholic hospitals make things worse. Normal hospitals might induce an abortion to make sure the embryonic tissue is removed from a woman’s body to prevent infection. Not Catholic hospitals. They require doctors to wait until a woman is infected before providing treatment.
What about contraception? Catholic hospitals won’t dispense it. If a victim of sexual assault needs birth control immediately, and a Catholic hospital happens to be the one nearby, it may not help her. If there’s any chance the victim is already pregnant when the hospital sees her, that help is even less likely.
Catholic hospitals also won’t perform vasectomies on men because those would interfere with natural pregnancies in the future.
Nor will they help women who want to get pregnant by using a sperm donor.
They also won’t help couples use a surrogatemother to give birth to their biological child because that would also be seen as “gravely immoral.”
Catholic hospitals are equally awful at the other end of life. What if you’re an elderly person who is dying of a terminal disease, constantly in pain, and eager to end life on your own terms, peacefully, while you are able to make those kinds of decisions? Even in states where euthanasia, or death with dignity, is legal, too damn bad. You will just have to suffer. They will not assist you in those cases.
Got caught up in these types of decisions with my first pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Fuck the Catholic Church.
I already told you that I agree with you as far as him not being a good candidate based on his past war crimes, but I can't continue a conversation where you're going to victim blame like this. It's disgusting.
I dug up his old Reddit comment about rape victims earlier because I was curious and couldn’t quite remember the details:
“Holy fuck, how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to? Men and women, you make a choice to consume enough of a substance to lose your self control. So if you don’t want to be in a comprising situation, act like an adult for fucks sake.”
She has explained why she hesitated to come forward.
“One of the reasons I didn’t come forward sooner was, the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person,” she said. “I just want the truth out there. I just want people to have a whole scope of who he is as a person.”
She estimated that Platner removed condoms without her consent at least six times when they had sex at both of their residences in D.C. during their two-year, on-and-off relationship. She said she told him that she was upset about it but that he would make light of the situation.
“I confronted him both during and after [sex] because he knew that I was not on birth control and how dangerous that was,” she told The Post in one interview. In another, she said: “He would act like cute about it, like ‘Oh sneaky me.’”
Got caught up in these types of decisions with my first pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Fuck the Catholic Church.