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oraxx's avatar

I for one would be more than happy to see churches out of the hospital business all together. I would make an exception for religious universities who operate a medical school, but that's it. In addition to having an utterly irrational view of human sexuality, the Catholic Church puts more value on a tiny cluster of non-viable cells than they do the life of the mother. Organized religion is a millstone around the neck of humanity and it has contributed far more evil than good to the world.

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"Dogma overrode expertise."

It did far more than that. Catholic dogma ran over common sense, decency, and the doctors ' Hippocratic oath, never mind very nearly stepping on Ms Nusslock's LIFE. I find it unfortunate that the hospital only saw reason after being threatened with a lawsuit from the state of California. Because of that, I think follow-up and considerable scrutiny on that and other Catholic hospitals is not only desirable but mandatory.

The agreement as outlined in this article is only temporary. It damned well ought to be permanent.

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