I am so glad to see some reaction to the poor woman in
Ireland, of all places, has been shit on by the Catholic Church
for ages and they continue to take it in the rear like good little sheep but
maybe even the Irish have had enough…I hope so, its time!
Medicine and religion should never be allowed to mix; well
maybe in Voodoo.
Religion and science can coexist on some levels but once
religion gets radical and loses all sense of reality, we have a problem.
In this country where abortion is legal, the forces against
choice and abortion are constantly at work trying to undermine the law and our
access to it, in effect trying to force their views on us which affects our very
well being.
The woman in Ireland
was not of Irish decent and probably not Catholic. Her main concern was to stay
alive and yet the medical help to allow her to keep her life was denied to her
because of some religious belief that has nothing to do with emergency
medicine. The doctor in this case failed to live by the Hippocratic Oath that
he took to ABOVE ALL ELSE, DO NO HARM and so mother and fetus died.
I remember working in an emergency room when a Jehovah’s
Witnesses woman was brought in suffering from blood loss due to a miscarriage.
We were warned that under no circumstances, was she to be transfused. We though
of doing it anyway since we were trained to save lives but a superior told us
we had no legal right…she died.
I also remember reading about Christian Scientists that do
not believe in medicine at all and just pray over the sick. Some have been
thrown in jail when children started dying of Scarlet Fever because their Strep
Throats were not treated. Are children also to be sacrificed for religious
lunacy?
At some point in our history we MUST come to an agreement
that religion and state/ government cannot be allowed to mix, same goes for religion
and medicine and same goes for religion in the lives of people that do not want
religion in their lives…
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