{"id":49121,"date":"2015-01-02T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/when-the-bishops-control-your-doctor.html"},"modified":"2015-01-02T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:46:04","slug":"when-the-bishops-control-your-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/when-the-bishops-control-your-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"When the Bishops control your Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want a tubal ligation? It&#39;s a significant but relatively straightforward surgical procedure, and a lot of women &quot;tie the tubes&quot; when they don&#39;t want have any more babies. It&#39;s often an option provided when delivering a baby by C-Section.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#39;t ask for one if you&#39;re at a Catholic-owned or -operate hospital. The US Bishops think sterilization is a sin, and, even if you&#39;re not Catholic, it&#39;s going to be off the surgical table. And the Catholics own or operate an increasingly large proportion of hospitals in the US.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It&#39;s scary that so many hospitals are controlled by a group whose religious beliefs trump your medical care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/u.s.-bishops-take-aim-at-sterilization'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/9cDnRmmmFIaF_0_H7BIKv-0OB15-AWCUUuAzO4B57OI92uykHbwQ8SySfIemCTRjMgcxuK3uaYDmlX4UNvRnkWcHLLMwH6lEcgOl6jrPs_ivjqOSWxiFK_yJ76wmzidv5LEANJQAvkJdAT_FgA=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/u.s.-bishops-take-aim-at-sterilization'>U.S. Bishops Take Aim at Sterilization<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA toughening of Catholic medical directives could include enforcing a ban on tubal ligations.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/b8FPUAmXCa8'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a tubal ligation? It&#39;s a significant but relatively straightforward surgical procedure, and a lot of women &quot;tie the tubes&quot; when they don&#39;t want have any more babies. It&#39;s often an option provided when delivering a baby by C-Section. But don&#39;t ask for one if you&#39;re at a Catholic-owned or -operate hospital. The US Bishops &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/when-the-bishops-control-your-doctor.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When the Bishops control your Doctor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/its-not-just-churches-or-hospitals-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":0},"title":"It&#39;s not just churches or hospitals any more","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 10:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, at least the US Bishops are being consistent. I'd wondered, though, why they were protesting the idea of Catholic Church-owned institutions (universities, hospitals, bicycle stores) having to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, but not protesting how individual Catholic business owners, not institutionally part of the Church, would have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-bishops-to-do-list.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":1},"title":"On the Bishops&#39; to-do list","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-12 10:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure now that this news is out, the US Catholic Bishops will take steps to eliminate such coverage, per their fulminating over the religious oppression under government mandate that they ... do what they're mostly, actually already doing (plus are required to do already in many states). #ddtb Embedded\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FGoogle-ChromeScreenSnapz361-300x213.png","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":130506,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/religious-freedom-vs-medical-freedom.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":2},"title":"Religious freedom vs medical freedom","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Apr-16 9:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"While most of the \"religious freedom\" noises the last year or two have been about individuals and mom-and-pop stores wanting to deny service to sinners gay people, up at the large organization level it's been religious-owned (or -imaged) companies fighting the previous culture war around reproductive issues.One story that has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32615,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/24\/if-you-cant-control-the-medical-demand-control-the-medical-supply.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":3},"title":"If you can&#39;t control the medical demand, control the medical supply","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Feb-13 4:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While states like Alabama and their ilk are trying to make legal abortion de facto 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 hospitals in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26260,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/compromise-cave-let-on-contraception-coverage.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":4},"title":"Compromise Cave-let on Contraception Coverage","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Feb-12 4:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The White House announced it would extend the contraception coverage exemption to religiously-affiliated institutions (like some hospitals and universities), as the US Catholic Bishops have been demanding.On the other hand, supposedly in such cases the insurance companies will be required to offer such free coverage directly to the employees, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27460,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/listening-to-the-bishops-is-mandatory-except-when-its-optional.html","url_meta":{"origin":49121,"position":5},"title":"Listening to the Bishops is Mandatory &#8230; except when it&#39;s Optional","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Apr-12 2:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"GOP Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan made a big deal about how his Catholic faith and moral sense of something-or-another informed the budget he proposed, so that's how you knew it was a good thing. 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