Fox’s Favorite Priest Outraged Catholic Hospitals Might Be Forced To Save Lives

Who would Jesus tell to fuck off and die?


Fox’s Favorite Priest Outraged Catholic Hospitals Might Be Forced To Save Lives
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So who shoved his rosary beads right up Father Fox News’s butt this time? Why, it’s the godless heathens at the ACLU, trying to force Catholic hospitals to provide emergency healthcare, almost as if they are hospitals that are legally and ethically required to provide healthcare. See, Trinity Healthcare Corporation operates more than 80 hospitals according to the medical dictates of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Which means that if you have the misfortune of being rushed to one of its emergency rooms for healthcare a bunch of not-doctors have determined makes Jesus cry — like, say, you’re having an excruciating and life-threatening miscarriage and you need the dying fetus removed from your body so it doesn’t kill you — well, too bad for you, fuck off and die. Literally. Because religious liberty.



Refusing to administer life-saving care is not only just about the most immoral and non pro-lifey thing you can imagine, but, as Jessica Mason Pielko lawsplains at RH Reality Check, it’s also NOT LEGAL, MOTHERFUCKERS. Several federal laws, including Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and the laws of human decency, require hospitals to treat patients when their health or life is in jeopardy, no matter what. Which is why the ACLU is rightfully suing the shit out of Trinity, because “don’t wanna” is not an acceptable legal excuse for refusing to provide emergency healthcare.

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Actually, the problem is that Father Morris is a goddamned A Idiot, and he doesn’t understand that when the fetus is already dead, it’s not a patient whose life can be saved. It’s a corpse, and it’s threatening the life of a patient who requires immediate medical attention who isn’t dead. Yet. Which the Fox guy tries to explain by pointing out that “in “all of these cases, the fetus is dead.” But Father Morris has a terrific response to that:
No, that’s not [the ACLU’s] argument. Their argument is that a doctor, a hospital, should be required to kill the fetus if that’s what the patient wants. In order to protect the life of the mother.
These Catholic institutions are saying, “We will never intentionally kill a human being. We will try to save the life of both.”

No, Father Morris, wrong again. These hospitals are not trying to save any lives at all. They’re simply refusing care to patients whose medical emergencies have been officially categorized as “too bad, sucks to be you, musta been God’s plan” by the evil motherfuckers who make the rules these hospitals are required to follow. Same evil motherfuckers who’ve been covering up all that kid-raping. Same evil motherfuckers who say pro-choice politicians should be denied communion, if not outright excommunicated, but never say diddly fuck all jack squat about politicians who support the death penalty.

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