{"id":27296,"date":"2012-04-02T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/religiously-limited-medical-care.html"},"modified":"2012-04-02T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:01:08","slug":"religiously-limited-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/religiously-limited-medical-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Religiously Limited Medical Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the recent Birth Control Coverage Kerfuffle, what was left unstated in the question of whether Church-owned or -controlled hospitals should be required to provide contraceptive care (etc.) for women was what the overall impact was. <\/p>\n

This article notes how much of our nation's medical care (and governmental medical spending) is routed through Catholic (and Adventist and Baptist) hospitals — which continue to grow and merge and acquire other hospitals, expanding their religious restrictions on what is theologically acceptable, not just regarding contraception and abortion, but "new technologies, end-of-life care choices, vaccination, risk reduction counseling, and even access to scientific information."<\/p>\n

And while metro areas like Denver might have a variety of options (if you are, in fact, aware of what care is or is not religiously available at a hospital when you check in), smaller cities and rural areas may have only one hospital with necessary facilities within a reasonable distance. And if that hospital is providing services restricted by religious doctrine, then that effects everyone,<\/i> regardless of their own religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

As the author puts it: 'As you read, consider: \u201cWhen religion collides with<\/i> your medical care, who should decide what is right for<\/i> you?\u201d' The answer as current law continues to put it, seems to be, "Whoever owns the place." #ddtb<\/p>\n

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