Ladies, you don't have to put up with this...
The following is an article from MSNBC about doctors refusing care to patients based on religious or moral beliefs. You don't have to put up with this. You can always find a care provider who is not biased. Planned Parenthood is only one of several providers who will give un-censored information. You can also ask for a copy of your existing records, including lab tests, and take those to a new provider so you don't have to repeat the exam. There are crisis hotlines and other agencies available in to assist. Can you tell I'm peeved about this?
Is your doctor playing judge?
New laws shore up providers’ right to refuse treatment based on beliefs
Plamen Petkov / SELF magazine
By Sabrina Rubin Erdely
Updated: 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Lori Boyer couldn't stop trembling as she sat on the examining table, hugging her hospital gown around her. Her mind was reeling. She'd been raped hours earlier by a man she knew - a man who had assured Boyer, 35, that he only wanted to hang out at his place and talk. Instead, he had thrown her onto his bed and assaulted her. "I'm done with you," he'd tonelessly told her afterward. Boyer had grabbed her clothes and dashed for her car in the freezing predawn darkness. Yet she'd had the clarity to drive straight to the nearest emergency room - Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania - to ask for a rape kit and talk to a sexual assault counselor. Bruised and in pain, she grimaced through the pelvic exam. Now, as Boyer watched Martin Gish, M.D., jot some final notes into her chart, she thought of something the rape counselor had mentioned earlier.
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Is your doctor playing judge?
New laws shore up providers’ right to refuse treatment based on beliefs
Plamen Petkov / SELF magazine
By Sabrina Rubin Erdely
Updated: 2 hours, 23 minutes ago
Lori Boyer couldn't stop trembling as she sat on the examining table, hugging her hospital gown around her. Her mind was reeling. She'd been raped hours earlier by a man she knew - a man who had assured Boyer, 35, that he only wanted to hang out at his place and talk. Instead, he had thrown her onto his bed and assaulted her. "I'm done with you," he'd tonelessly told her afterward. Boyer had grabbed her clothes and dashed for her car in the freezing predawn darkness. Yet she'd had the clarity to drive straight to the nearest emergency room - Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania - to ask for a rape kit and talk to a sexual assault counselor. Bruised and in pain, she grimaced through the pelvic exam. Now, as Boyer watched Martin Gish, M.D., jot some final notes into her chart, she thought of something the rape counselor had mentioned earlier.
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