True story.
One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.
The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn’t want to carry her rapist’s baby.
Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.
This is the reality
Sorry to ask, but if such a place didn’t want to dispense it, why would they have it? Am I not understanding something about pharmacies here?
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
“Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!”
Lots of hospitals were started by churches.
One of Texas’s biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it’s just another hospital. The church doesn’t get any of the money or anything.
Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won’t do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.
I’m not religious in the slightest, but in my experience, them Methodists seem pretty chill. Worked with one to make their website a while a back and their pastor was the most laid back, easy to work with dude, loved everyone, black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans, whatever. I miss that guy.
The Methodist Church has always been staunchly anti-gay. Some are trying to change it, but the bigotry remains.
To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.
Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.
it’s only a matter of time before the supreme court forces new york to comply; i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.
when slavery was a thing, the shitty laws from shitty states to reclaim escaped slaves took primacy over laws from abolitionist states that would have protected them due to the supreme court and it took a war to overcome it.
The US Supreme Court can’t currently do what you say without a law change at the federal level.
Also, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery (mostly) was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 after the end of the US Civil War.
Do you think the actual law matters to the Supreme Court? They act more like priests now.
I didn’t think about what matters to SCOTUS at all.
The law still matters to people and that’s what’s important. Only after we, abandon the rule of law will there be a complete breakdown of society and a descent into chaos and anarchy.
I know from all the doom posting I see on Lemmy that many don’t, but I still have hope.
We’ve been literally dismantling the first amendment (Establishment clause particularly). And the fourteenth (the whole fucking thing by EO).
You’d think a world-class corporate news organiztion like Associated Press would be able to shoehorn that into the title somehow. And yet.
It’s literally the second paragraph of the article. You’d think a literate person with time to write inane comments would be able to read the article. And yet.
FYI, it seems like you are marked as a bot. You might want to change that (assuming you aren’t a bot)
Thanks I’m fairly certain that I’m a human.
No, but there’s something with your profile on your instance server, where clients that can indicate bots with an icon cause your account to show that icon. So people will think you’re a bot
Texas politicians are so shit they need to infect other states.
Get your shit together Texas.
They won’t.
We’ll just have to do what we’ve always done and sit back and watch Texans continually punch themselves in the face because they can’t figure things out.
If reciprocal enforcement can allow Texas to force NY to follow their laws, then why can’t NY force Texas to provide abortions?
