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I know there’s an another thread on this issue, but it’s old, and I want a more straight to the point answer.
Anyway, here’s the description of the lawsuit directly from the ACLU’s website:
aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/fighting-emergency-care-pregnant-women-catholic-hospitals
The ACLU claims, “Today we announced a lawsuit against one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, for imposing religious rules on its staff that prevent doctors from performing an abortion in emergency cases involving miscarriage or other pregnancy complications—even when a woman’s life is at risk. We’re suing Trinity Health Corporation after discovering that it has repeatedly failed to provide women suffering pregnancy complications with appropriate emergency abortion care as required by federal law.”
It further goes on to say “…A public health educator in Michigan discovered that at one of Trinity’s hospitals alone, at least five women who were suffering from miscarriages and needed urgent care were denied that care because of the Catholic directives.”
From what I understand, abortion (i.e. the intentional killing of a fetus) is never needed to save the life of the mother. In every case a pregnant woman’s life may be in danger, the fetus has no chance of living, and the medical operation that must be performed to save the mother’s life will result in the indirect death of the fetus. So these procedures don’t really count as abortions, and are not banned by the Catholic Church.
However, the lawsuit makes it sound like Trinity hospitals are even denying women medical procedures that would result in the indirect death of the fetus (which it refers to as “abortions”). If this is truly the case, then it sounds like Trinity hospitals truly are being unreasonable, and the ACLU’s lawsuit may have merit.
So what I’m asking here is what is Trinity hospital’s side of the story? It has to be more complex that what the ACLU is letting on to. Something I notice is the ACLU is putting a lot of emphasis on miscarriages. But don’t miscarriages just happen naturally? Why would an abortion need to be done in the case of a miscarriage? Does the ACLU want Trinity hospitals to perform abortions on miscarriages to simply speed up the process? And what of those 5 women who were suffering miscarriages and were denied care? If they were already miscarrying, what care would they be denied?
The ACLU article also states, “…you’re in the middle of your pregnancy when all of a sudden your amniotic fluid starts to leak. You’re in extreme pain. You start to bleed. You start to get a fever. You rush to the nearest hospital. You’d expect that any hospital emergency room would provide you the proper care.” But in how many of these health problems absolutely require abortion? It seems like they’re bringing up pregnancy problems that would very rarely or never require an abortion in order to bolster their case.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
Anyway, here’s the description of the lawsuit directly from the ACLU’s website:
aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/fighting-emergency-care-pregnant-women-catholic-hospitals
The ACLU claims, “Today we announced a lawsuit against one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, for imposing religious rules on its staff that prevent doctors from performing an abortion in emergency cases involving miscarriage or other pregnancy complications—even when a woman’s life is at risk. We’re suing Trinity Health Corporation after discovering that it has repeatedly failed to provide women suffering pregnancy complications with appropriate emergency abortion care as required by federal law.”
It further goes on to say “…A public health educator in Michigan discovered that at one of Trinity’s hospitals alone, at least five women who were suffering from miscarriages and needed urgent care were denied that care because of the Catholic directives.”
From what I understand, abortion (i.e. the intentional killing of a fetus) is never needed to save the life of the mother. In every case a pregnant woman’s life may be in danger, the fetus has no chance of living, and the medical operation that must be performed to save the mother’s life will result in the indirect death of the fetus. So these procedures don’t really count as abortions, and are not banned by the Catholic Church.
However, the lawsuit makes it sound like Trinity hospitals are even denying women medical procedures that would result in the indirect death of the fetus (which it refers to as “abortions”). If this is truly the case, then it sounds like Trinity hospitals truly are being unreasonable, and the ACLU’s lawsuit may have merit.
So what I’m asking here is what is Trinity hospital’s side of the story? It has to be more complex that what the ACLU is letting on to. Something I notice is the ACLU is putting a lot of emphasis on miscarriages. But don’t miscarriages just happen naturally? Why would an abortion need to be done in the case of a miscarriage? Does the ACLU want Trinity hospitals to perform abortions on miscarriages to simply speed up the process? And what of those 5 women who were suffering miscarriages and were denied care? If they were already miscarrying, what care would they be denied?
The ACLU article also states, “…you’re in the middle of your pregnancy when all of a sudden your amniotic fluid starts to leak. You’re in extreme pain. You start to bleed. You start to get a fever. You rush to the nearest hospital. You’d expect that any hospital emergency room would provide you the proper care.” But in how many of these health problems absolutely require abortion? It seems like they’re bringing up pregnancy problems that would very rarely or never require an abortion in order to bolster their case.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?