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Samantha Bee did several disturbing interviews with women who needed abortions or other OB-GYN services and were turned down. The thing all the stories had in common was the health care provider was religiously owned or affiliated.
The story's included:
So my question is, should religiously affiliated hospitals be required to inform female patients as soon as possible that there are standard procedures they will refuse to do and that they will take more risks with their patients life and health to satisfy their owners religious demands?
Normally I would say they should be held to the appropriate standard of care but I understand about religious freedom.
I would also say the free market could take care of it since their poor treatment of women seeking OB GYN procedures should push consumers away. But since this is health care emergencies take away this option, the provider networks can monopolize entire areas, and they just don't inform you until it's too late this isn't an option either.
The story's included:
- A woman who wanted a child but before 20 weeks her doctor identified the fetus has having encephalopathy and would not survive. Since it was a Catholic hospital they would not terminate the pregnancy. She went to a different hospital but they would not help without documentation from the original hospital who refused. She eventually began bleeding and it was only after they measured the quantity of blood in her pads before they would remove the fetus. Which she got to watch turn blue and die over a couple of hours. http://youtu.be/9finqZJJNA8
- A resident who had to transfer a 19 year old to another hospital because her water broke at 17 weeks and after two days she became septic. The hospital would not terminate the pregnancy since there was a fetal heart beat. She miscarried in the ambulance after nearly going into shock. http://youtu.be/obC0IjaKzgE
- A woman who fell and dislodged her IUD and began bleeding and cramping. She looked up OBs in her medical directory and went to the first one who could see her after explaining her problem. The Dr confirmed the IUD was dislodged but as they had been bought by a catholic organization and her IUD was for birth control they couldn't touch it. She also said that all OBs in the area on her insurance were now part of that catholic network so she would have to change insurance which could take weeks to months. After two weeks she managed to find someone to remove it. http://youtu.be/C6iyAMFDjy4
- Finally a mother who had suffered from eclampsia had her IUD fail. When she began to stroke out at 29 weeks the hospital she ended up at was catholic. She asked them to tie her tubes after the c-section. They told her they couldn't and she'd have to sign herself out against medical orders and drive herself to another hospital. http://youtu.be/xFWRfhDr000
So my question is, should religiously affiliated hospitals be required to inform female patients as soon as possible that there are standard procedures they will refuse to do and that they will take more risks with their patients life and health to satisfy their owners religious demands?
Normally I would say they should be held to the appropriate standard of care but I understand about religious freedom.
I would also say the free market could take care of it since their poor treatment of women seeking OB GYN procedures should push consumers away. But since this is health care emergencies take away this option, the provider networks can monopolize entire areas, and they just don't inform you until it's too late this isn't an option either.
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