Recently the issue of ABORTION has been raised yet again on
a number of levels.
Our Michigan legislature, dominated by Republicans who are
obviously regressive when it comes to social issues, has seen fit to ban
abortion coverage from medical insurance policies being provided in the state;
abortion coverage would be provided as a separate rider to the policy paid for
by the purchaser of the policy.
In essence, these conservatives and their religious backers
do not consider the abortion procedure as health care and only as an “elected”
procedure that they are trying their darnedest to make illegal or at least prohibitive.
These non-medical religious zealots that practice fetus
worship have blinders on and see the abortion procedure as only the killing of
a fetus and do not consider the mother’s health in the equation; let the mother
die as long as the fetus survives. Also in the case of rape, they argue that
bringing the rapist’s child to term is what God wants and to hell with what the
woman suffered and will suffer mentally throughout her life by giving birth to
a product of a terrible crime against her; it’s like being sentenced to a life
of mental anguish for being a victim.
Just recently, a Michigan woman has sues a Catholic hospital
for being sent home when she was obviously having a miscarriage. For you who
don’t know your medicine, a miscarriage occurs when a woman’s body rejects the
fetus. This usually means terrible pain and bleeding and can lead to the mother
dying of complications if medical intervention is not provided.
Usually a D&C (Dilation & Curettage) is performed
where the uterus is scraped clean of any of the remaining fetus debris.
The Michigan woman is suing the US Conference of Catholic
Bishops for imposing rules that prohibit Catholic hospitals from providing
necessary medical care to a woman suffering from a miscarriage. In this case,
the hospital sent the woman home twice (only hospital available to her in the
area) and did not even advise her that she needed a D&C which is available
at non-Catholic medical institutions; she could have died.
This brings to mind that case in Ireland where a woman was
denied a D&C at 17 weeks even though the fetus was not viable; she died of
sepsis.
I have been in the medical field most of my adult life with
stints in ER service. To me medical professionals and medical facilities MUST
administer medical aid to patients as deemed necessary by medical standards and
practices which are accepted universally.
Doctor’s swear an oath to “above all, do no harm”. This I
feel supersedes any and all religious beliefs and practices because religious
beliefs are NOT anchored in good medical practices; they are anchored in Dark
Age superstitions.
The ACLU of Michigan is handling the case and as much as I
disagree with the ACLU on other issues, I may have to restart my support of the
organization.
I hope our courts hold Catholic medical institutions as well
as their directors liable for any harm that comes to patients they serve
because of their religious rules which contradict sound medical practice.
I myself, will support the ACLU and vote against my dumb ass
state senator and representative that voted to remove abortion (D&C)
coverage from Affordable Care insurance policies offered in Michigan.
No comments:
Post a Comment