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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (24 children)

A hospital is just a building and the organization that owns the building.

The real question is, should hospitals be allowed to force or forbid doctors from providing medical care?

A doctor (Catholic or not) should never, and can never, be forced to perform a medical procedure, including abortions. And they also shouldn't be forbidden from performing a medical procedure.

Hospitals just provide rooms and equipment so that doctors can provide the care that their patients need, within their ability to provide that care.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

This is really it. If a doctor has a moral objection to abortions, maybe gynecology wasn't the right discipline for them to practice. That's on them, and they should be upfront about it being a personal moral objection and for them to seek another doctor.

I'm fine with that compromise, because I suspect those doctors are and will remain the minority, and everyone's rights are preserved.

But if a chief of medicine, or worse, a board of non-doctors, says their hospital won't perform abortions on religious grounds? Then fuck you, you're not a hospital, you are a faith-based healing center, and need to be treated as such.

Hospital administration needs to be science-based care and check their religion at the door, especially if they aren't directly practicing. They shouldn't be making decisions that directly effect people that they are indirectly related to based upon someone's interpretation of an old anthology of fables.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

That's fine. Just don't expect to keep your medical license as you sit around doing nothing as people die of preventable deaths.

If you're a doctor, your job is to save lives. If you intentionally fail to do that job it shouldn't be your job.

If a fireman refused to put out a fire because they didn't feel like it, they'd be lose their job too.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How come 90% of these twitter screenshots I see on lemmy are all just witty comebacks to fake opinions that nobody actually holds? This is like those "feminist gets rekt with facts and logic" compilation videos on youtube, but for liberals. Poking fun at strawmen every once in a while is entertaining, but it gets old really quickly.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a 100% real opinion a lot of people hold.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nevermind, I think you're right. I was confused by the term "catholic hospital", but I looked it up and apparently a lot of hospitals around the world really do have a religious affiliations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

a woman i nannied for almost died giving birth to both of her sons. when she had the second one, she asked them to tie her tubes while they were doing the c section and they refused due to their religious policies. she had to fully recover from the birth and then find a doctor who would do the procedure, then had to recover again from that surgery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Sadly, I have met actual Catholics who believe this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

If they want to have an argument on the Internet they don't need to make up a bad take; it's an abundant resource on the web.

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