Report: hundreds of US hospitals follow Catholic rules on reproductive care

Jun 13, 2016 13:36


Note to Mods: This article is a few weeks old, but I'm 99.9% sure it wasn't posted here--and it's definitely still timely.

When she was 22 weeks pregnant, Mindy Swank began to bleed. She had known for nearly two weeks that she was miscarrying - and in such a way that she was at risk for infection.

But the Catholic hospital near her home had refused ( Read more... )

womens rights, catholic church, pregnancy, health care, reproductive rights, god save us from your followers, medicine

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chaya June 13 2016, 19:52:53 UTC
Is there a reason this is locked?

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moonshaz June 13 2016, 21:43:51 UTC
No, it was completely unintentional! It should be fixed now.

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chaya June 14 2016, 03:40:42 UTC
Awesome, ty

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cghardy June 14 2016, 18:16:09 UTC
But the hospital, Mercy Health Partners of Muskegon, Michigan

Oh, goody. 'My' state. Not surprising. And that crosses a hospital off the list.

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