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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just last week, something similar happened in a small town in Washington state where the only hospital was Catholic.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/09/25/miscarriage-catholic-hospital/

And more info here in a Forbes article about how widespread this is.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/05/07/health-care-denied-at-550-hospitals-because-of-catholic-doctrine/#25d6a0c5ad9d [/quote]

Just to be fair, it looks like the people enacting these laws were hospital administrators and nurses.  The people seen in the ED were “providers,” and the only MD mentioned was essentially an admin as well.  From the article, the physicians involved in the actual
patient care were the ones who advocated for and saved these women.  [/quote]

This.  Don’t conflate doctors with administrators.  Catholic doctors are actively fighting these policies at their specific institutions. 
 Catholic doctors invented oral contraceptives and are continuing to look for contraception that doesn’t violate the church’s policies.  Catholic doctors are on call 24/7 in hospital ethics committees with decisions made within minutes.  Catholic doctors are caring for patients anyway and risking getting fired.  Catholic doctors are getting patients transferred out of these hospitals.  In every case posted here, the doctors are taking care of patients.[/quote]

Still though, if a choice of hospitals is available, wouldn’t you choose the one which doesn’t have policies and administrators and nurses who are more concerned with church doctrine than patient care? That’s all OP’s mom was saying. And if you have a choice, you’re lucky - in a lot of areas of this country you don’t have a number of hospitals to pick from.[/quote]
You realize doctors who are Catholic can be at non-catholic hospitals? And non-Catholic doctors can work at a Catholic hospital. 
The issue isn’t Catholic doctors, but catholic hospitals.[/quote]

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