11/11/16 Catholic Hospitals Need To Move To This Century?

    The other night, I was just skimming through the channels and saw a report on Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.  She was previously on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart a couple years ago and I always liked her sarcastic style and wit.  She was reporting on the fact that Catholic Hospitals have been increasing, 22% over the last 15 years.  This sounds boring except they still think with their bible instead of their heads.  Even if these hospitals previously allowed abortions, performed sterilizations, or offered birth control options, all of these are now not allowed under the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.  According to the show, this is a group run by bishops, which we all know no women are allowed that high up the ranking of cool priest positions.
    By their decree abortions are not allowed, even if the mother's life is in danger, never mind if the pregnancy was caused by a rape or incest.  When asked and confronted Father John Erichs, the medical Director for the Diocese of Phoenix said "there are some situations where the mother may in fact die with the child."  Come on, even you pro lifers realize this is 2016 not 1816, we understand so much more of human anatomy.  Women do not have to die because of this, nowadays.  It might be tragic and sad, but if the pregnancy is an ectopic pregnancy, for instance, and the fetus has no chance of surviving, why should the woman pay the ultimate price?  If a 13-14 year old girl gets raped by her creepy old uncle while he is drunk, she should suffer the shame of that pregnancy?
    This is disconcerting enough but the hospitals aren't even good for some good old fashioned birth control.  If you live in a big city, fine, throw the finger at the facility and go down the street to the next hospital and hope it's not run by people in robes.  There are smaller cities with the only option being the Catholic Hospital for hundreds of miles and without birth control people don't stop having sex naïve people, they start having risky sex that leads to more unwanted pregnancies.
    What is the big plan here?  Just to fill the streets with unwanted pregnancies?  It is great that all those people go into religious service (although I remember a Time article that something like 60% of men going into priesthood were gay), why do they get to tell the general population what they can and can't do to their bodies?  I only bring up the gay thing because it is very convenient for a group that will not reproduce by doing what we do behind closed doors to tell the others too bad if your type of sex has consequences like creating life.  You cannot fulfill your sexual desires like we do.  If you end up pregnant from an evening of fun, you should now suffer for the rest of your life or at least the next 18 years.