{"id":32615,"date":"2013-02-24T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/24\/if-you-cant-control-the-medical-demand-control-the-medical-supply.html"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:40:52","slug":"if-you-cant-control-the-medical-demand-control-the-medical-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/24\/if-you-cant-control-the-medical-demand-control-the-medical-supply.html","title":{"rendered":"If you can't control the medical demand, control the medical supply"},"content":{"rendered":"
While states like Alabama and their ilk are trying to make legal abortion de facto<\/i> unavailable by putting abortion clinics out of business, the Catholic Church is doing the same by acquiring and expanding its hospital system across the nation, until some areas of the nation have no<\/i> hospitals in the area that don't abide by the Church's "Ethical and Religious Directives": \u00a0no contraception (including vasectomies and tubal ligations), no physician assisted suicide, and, of course — except in the most extreme cases where the woman's life is clearly in danger and the fetus no longer shows any heartbeat — no abortions.<\/p>\n

Such procedures may be legal. They may have been supported by ballot by a majority in the areas in question. But if a\u00a0hospital is owned by or in partnership with the Church, such procedures might as well not even exist. And the Church owns or is in alliance with 12% of the hospitals in the nation — in some states (such as Washington) the number climbs to over 40%.<\/p>\n

And, of course, unless you explicitly ask when you're go to such hospitals (or when the ambulance asks you where you want to go), you'd \u00a0have no idea that was the case. Until, of course, you're that man who's suffering a terminal illness, or that woman who's been told that a miscarriage is a certainty but that nothing can be done until the fetal heartbeat stops, even if it's killing you in the meantime.<\/p>\n

I'm sure that getting a lecture to help "appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering" is very nice, but it's not medical care.<\/i><\/p>\n

One of the great objections people have to insurance companies and\/or the government being involved in the health care world is the idea of someone other than a person and their physician interfering with their health care decisions. \u00a0The same should obviously be a concern regarding interference by hospital administrators, hospital ERD-enforcing "ethical committees", and Catholic bishops.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Faith Healers by Cienna Madrid – Seattle Features – The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n


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