Catholic hospitals in Michigan are so afraid of miscarriage that they are risking women’s lives because a bunch of old, pedophile-shielding Bishops are calling the shots:
The report, by a former Muskegon County health official, Faith Groesbeck, accuses Mercy Health Partners of forcing five women between August 2009 and December 2010 to undergo dangerous miscarriages by giving them no other option.
All five women, the report says, had symptoms indicating that it would be safest for them to deliver immediately. But instead of informing the women of their options, the report says, or offering to transfer them to a different hospital, doctors – apparently out of deference to the Mercy Health Partners’ strict ban on abortion – unilaterally decided to subject the women to prolonged miscarriages.
As a result, the report claims, several of the women suffered infection or emotional trauma, or had to undergo unnecessary surgery. None of the women were pregnant beyond 24 weeks, when an infant can survive outside the womb.
[…] The report squarely links these events to Mercy Health Partners’ Catholic sponsorship. In the US, hospitals that advertise themselves as Catholic must follow a set of medical directives written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All doctors working at the hospital must follow church teachings, regardless of their personal beliefs, and the hospital is responsible for instructing its staff on the directives.
God is the world’s greatest abortionist, terminating almost 1/3 of all pregnancies spontaneously. Why are these Bishops so god-damned eager to get in His way?
Emma
Damn them all to Hell. It’s time the US government withdrew funding from religious hospitals.
Iowa Old Lady
@Emma: In my 100K population metro area, the only hospital system is Catholic. I can go 3 hours north to Mayo, or 90 minutes south to the U of Iowa hospital, but close to home, the hospital is Franciscan. It didn’t used to be that way, btw. They bought out the other hospital.
ruemara
They’ve bought up so many hospitals that in a lot of areas, they control women’s bodies by controlling the health care. I am scared of being in this country, if we lose 2016.
Emma
@Iowa Old Lady: I know. It’s happening everywhere. I guess I’m frustrated enough to want to fight back.
gvg
I have felt for some time that the Catholic Church should not be allowed to operate Hospitals and should have to divest. I would not say the same of all other churches. They don’t all insist on no abortions. And they could return to hospital ownership if they reversed their bad medicine policies or demonstrated a way their religious policies were not controlling medical decisions anymore. I’d also have the issue reviewed by boards of medical experts not politicians.
Booda
Because we need to send the message to women everywhere that they must suffer for their original sin of being female. Eve, Apple, etc…. Dangerous horseshit.
Ohio Mom
That certainly isn’t evidence-based medicine, it sounds like malpractice to me. Though if any of the women tries suing, the doctor’s insurance would settle out of court.
Emma
@srv: Baby Jesus can take care of himself. I am much more interested in protecting women from mealymouthed hypocrites.
MattF
Back in the days when abortion was illegal, my father (who was a physician) always knew which hospitals he could send patients to for safe abortions– it was obvious from the patient statistics. And it appears, sadly, that’s still true.
It’s time for the powers that be to make it clear that hospitals that won’t do the medically right thing for women’s health should be called out for that.
Seebach
This is why it’s important to vote for whoever gets the Dem nomination.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@ruemara:
But if we break up the banks by Feeling the Bern, everything will be great.
OzarkHillbilly
Numbers 5. oooppps, wait a minute, that is the chapter where God commands an abortion be performed. My bad. Now just where was that anti-abortion chapter again?
aimai
This is something I’ve been aware of for years,ever since I started participating in an online board for women trying to get pregnant or who are mothers. The number of women who are having a miscarriage or a stillbirth who are sent home from the hospital with a dead fetus and told to just “wait” until it “passes” is very high. Most of them are in such deep red states that they have no idea there is any other option–certainly none (like a D and C) is offered to them. Women are at risk for depression, sepsis, and other things while they wait at home or (worse) go to work with a dead fetus inside them.
of the above comments, the Pope just said contraceptives mmay be ok in areas affected by the
While I agree with all of the above, the Pope just said contraceptives could be justified in areas hit by the Zika virus. Seems like Trump isn’t the only one turning the world upside down this year. Oh and he also said people who build walls are not Christian. Take that GOP.
The old country doctor who delivered most of my family (think Doc. Adams from Gunsmoke) also helped out girls who had a problem. He didn’t advertise it but his patients knew where to turn if need be.
I remember reading a statistic a few years back about the sharp decline in [email protected]’s for young women after Roe.
HoneyBearKelly
Our tax dollars are subsidizing these monsters.
Seebach
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: breaking up the banks won fix everything, but it would break up the banks
ThresherK
@srv: Too bad that Jesus can’t pick His fans.
Chris
Mistaking yourself for the God you claim to worship is quite a common phenomenon in the upper echelons of reactionary religious movements.
RoonieRoo
In liberal Austin, a city that is just under a million in population (920,000 I think), we have ZERO non-Catholic hospitals. Zero. I might be missing one but I cannot think of any hospitals here that are not Catholic.
Bartholomew
Abortion is NOT prohibited in the Bible … it is not even mentioned, in spite of the fact that herbal abortifacents have been used for many thousands of years (ie, before Christ).
Instead of talking about the almost 30% mortality rate of women related to childbirth complications in the centuries of religious conservativism … we cringe before their ignorance?
Hilariously not, the ‘justification’ that conservatoids use is to say God is against killing people, which of course they support in every other context from the death penalty to war. It’s a made-up political issue, given force because liberals seem to think the Bible speaks against them.
For 50 YEARS now.
Catherine D.
Catholic hospitals also won’t necessarily honor DNRs. I’ve already told my parents that if they wind up in a Catholic hospital, I’m transferring them PDQ.
Kay
I wonder when (and if) this will start to break thru for more women.
If you’ve ever had a complicated pregnancy/delivery situation where medical people were running around and clearly barely suppressing panicking it really makes your palms sweat to think about this elaborate religious dance going on at the same time where no one is considering the mother. It happens fast. One minute they appear calm and then you just feel the whole room change.
It’s the helplessness. You”re literally flat on your back and just hoping it comes out okay. People should object to this. It could happen to you and you won’t be in a position to fix it.
Seebach
Which candidate will break up the Catholic church
karen marie
@Booda: Obviously these women engaged in carnal relations. If God lets them die, who are the bishops to stand in the way? (*Spitting in the bishops’ direction*)
dr. bloor
@Ohio Mom: Takes two parties to settle. One, or preferably a class, of victims intent on having their day in court are what’s needed here.
of the above comments, the Pope just said contraceptives mmay be ok in areas affected by the
@Catherine D.: I remember my Mom saying in the 1950’s that her Catholic girlfriends didn’t want to have their baby delivered in a Catholic hospital because if it was a choice between the baby and the mother the Church dictated to chose the baby. I guess these good Catholic girls weren’t into self-suicide even in the conservative 50’s.
Bartholomew
@Kay: Me too … I have to believe that women are simply being manipulated.
It isn’t really a ‘detail’ that the Bible does not contain a single word supporting a prohibition on abortion.
What it means is that, if our ‘leaders’ really wanted this issue to end, it would be over. Ask your local anti-abortion fundie to read out the scripture that condemns abortion. Then it ends.
Kay
@Catherine D.:
I think it gets really complicated for people not just because of the geography (what’s available, especially for low income) but because of the mergers. They merge with for-profits now. The compromises are elaborate. You have to be a really plugged in consumer to know this stuff.
I think state AG’s have a duty just on those grounds. At least let them know what the risks are.
karen marie
Yesterday I read a short article, illustrated with a closeup from a sonogram, about a woman pregnant with twins. It was a news item because the twins appeared to be holding hands, “as if the healthy twin was comforting the dying twin.” I as like WTF?!? Of course, the comments were a lot of oohing and aahing over such a miracle. Nothing was said in the article about what, if any, medical intervention would be undertaken. This would have been an excellent opportunity to inform people about the hazards mother and healthy twin faced as a result of the dying fetus. If this is what passes for “feel good” stories, I don’t want to live.
of the above comments, the Pope just said contraceptives mmay be ok in areas affected by the
The bishops claim to be pro-life but have been pretty silent on the number of death warrants signed by governors, some like Jeb catholic.
Kay
@Bartholomew:
I think we have allowed the anti-abortion movements focus on abortion to blind us to all the other situations where this comes into play. We have allowed them to talk about only what they want to talk about. Once it gets in that frame you cannot budge it out with a crowbar. Miscarriages are really common! Complicated deliveries happen!
Is anyone even considering what a ban on “partial birth abortion” with criminal penalties means in an emergency? How do they plan to write that statute to exclude stuff that happens in delivery? They better hope doctors are willing to be heroes, because people’s behavior is affected by threats of criminal prosecution.
Gelfling545
As I have said before this happened to my daughter here in Buffalo, NY where the Catholic Health System is the largest hospital presence. Fortunately we have a secular hospital presence as well, however much farther away from where she was living at the time, and she was able to get there for treatment before too much damage was done. What an experience: being in excruciating pain & bleeding & being told “Sorry, can’t help you. Now just get out of here quickly please. “
JustRuss
Are you suggesting the Free Market hasn’t fixed this by having non-Catholic hospitals magically appear for people who want these services? Unpossible!
cmorenc
@Ohio Mom:
The hospital’s malpractice /liability insurers won’t indefinitely continue insuring OB services at Catholic-owned hospitals against this kind of blatant medical malpractice without insisting on very high premium adjustments to cover the risk. And if state legislatures under hard-right GOP control attempt to create a “religious freedom” exemption to malpractice liability, this will infuriate most female voters, including many Catholic women who have been quietly defying the church for years on contraception and medical care issues.
Ella in New Mexico
It’s not the Catholic Hospitals that are the problem, many of which provide incredible, patient-centered care in all their other areas of service. Believe me, I have friends who work for some, and they can’t get over how great they treat their nurses and their patients. It’s the laws, some of which don’t yet exist and some of which need to be overturned.
The government should hold ALL hospitals–religious or not–accountable to current standards of evidence- based care. We need more laws similar to EMTALA, which states patients presenting at ER’s must receive a medical exam and stabilization of their condition, regardless of ability to pay. We used to have patient dumping or people being turned away at the ER doors with an MI before this law. It’s totally changed the way hospitals function.
Religion should also not be a way to avoid being charged with malpractice, or to prevent an insurance company’s refusal to pay the hospital for injury it caused a patient. Hospitals currently don’t get reimbursed for the care of things like pressure ulcers or hospital acquired infections, for example, regardless of what their excuse is.
We need laws that state that if a hospital has a religious belief regarding certain types of healthcare it must fully inform the patient of ALL their options, and arrange for transfer to a facility that DOES provide those services, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE HOSPITAL, including any extra expenses incurred over and above what the patient would have paid had they not had to transfer. They should also have to foot the bill for any injury or exacerbation of the patient’s condition should they NOT provide the proper care.
See how many women get flown 300 miles away to another facility for a dose of the morning after pill or a D and C for a miscarriage in progress when they have to pay the ridiculous costs of flying them there. Watch how quickly things change when the hospital does not get reimbursed for non-standard care that causes an expensive sepsis infection or requires surgery to repair damaged organs. They’ll find a way to provide those services that meets their religious views.
We have things called “Core Measures” in hospital medicine that have literally changed the way we do our jobs with patients because the hospital risks not being paid if all parts of the standard are not met. It’s the only way we’ve managed to upgrade a lot of conditions treated in hospitals today–$$$. And Catholic hospitals are just as subject to these rules as secular or profit-making facilities.
Of course, this will require we have a 5-4 Supreme Court that are not right wing religious nut jobs to boot the Hobby Lobby bunch to the curb…
Kay
@Gelfling545:
They should have to have a lit-up sign and a disclaimer on all advertising, along with an “increased risk” warning for women. I mean, come on. Give people a fighting chance when they’re trying to avoid faith-based medicine.
aimai
@Bartholomew: It is mentioned. Twice. Once when a fine is assessed to a man who causes a woman to have a miscarriage. A fine, not a draconian punishment. And the second time when it is advocated that a pregnant woman be given an abortifacient as a punishment for a crime she has committed.
Mnemosyne
There’s only one person whose religious beliefs should matter in a medical situation: the patient’s. Not the doctor’s, not the nurse’s, not the fucking janitor’s. Just the patient’s.
Iowa Old Lady
OBs don’t necessarily agree with Catholic hospital policies either, but if that’s the only hospital in town, they have to create work arounds that don’t always work.
TOP123
@RoonieRoo: we also have, under all that liberal reputation, a lot of techie nouveaux-riches glibertarians and a decent amount of whack-jobs à la Alex Jones.
of the above comments, the Pope just said contraceptives mmay be ok in areas affected by the
Totally tptally OT but I got a chuckle out of this in our digit/electronic technology based society
Capri
If the hospitals stick to strict Catholic doctrine, then no doctor associated with them would be allowed to perform vasectomies either. Funny how that never comes up.
? Martin
I will plug for Kamala Harris here, who demanded concessions from the Hoag/St Joes hospital merger that would have resulted in Hoag eliminating many womens health services as they made their Presbyterian to Catholic shift. Hoag will not be able to implement any changes in services for 20 years, they cannot dictate what services a physician provides in their own offices, even if they are inside a Hoag building. After the 20 years, Hoag must either continue to provide for any womens health service or arrange within reasonable distance (I think 1 mile or something quite reasonable) for that service to be provided and provide transportation to the new care provider. Eventually Hoag will get their ERD, but they’re going to have to work for it.
Additionally, there’s a new law that Harris helped write which just went into effect that requires crisis pregnancy centers (pro-life clinics) to provide accurate information about contraception and abortions. There are strict rules on how this information must be presented and how often, where it’s posted and so on. They must inform patients that there are free or low-cost family planning clinics that will provide these services, and tell them how to contact the county social services office. The crisis centers are suing, and it’s expected they’ll lose. The CA supreme court has already ruled on a similar law and sided with the state saying that false and misleading commercial speech is not protected by the 1st amendment.
And a ruling by the governor a few years ago that abortions can be provided by a number of health professionals other than physicians is having some real impact. Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants can all provide most first trimester procedures which not only expands the pool of licensed providers, but also lowers the cost of providing these services allowing more clinics to offer them.
Think of California as the anti-everyone-but-California. We are aggressively and shamelessly expanding access for women’s health here. We have ⅓ of the nations abortion providers and that ratio is growing.
Roger Moore
@srv:
More like buy ’em all out. The Catholic Church can use the money as a down payment on reparations to all the children their priests raped.
Miss Bianca
@Ella in New Mexico:
I like your approach…
Joel
Miscarriage rate is probably even higher if you consider terminations at fertilization or immediately thereafter. Period continues as normal so no one notices.
? Martin
Oh, I will also add that the expansion of abortion providers was spearheaded within the UC, specifically the UCSF School of Nursing that is expanding their curriculum to ensure that CA nurses are trained to do these procedures. Another benefit of this expansion is that a number of clinics in the state have moved away from ‘abortion days’ to providing the procedure continuously. That not only hampers the ability of protesters to concentrate their efforts but it also changes the expectation of the procedure from this ‘special’ thing that needs its own schedule to a routine thing. Normalizing a behavior is really key to acceptance, and we’re moving it in that direction here.
trollhattan
@srv:
Worst “Amen” corner ever.
NorthLeft12
Thanks for reminding me why I progressed from active Catholic, to lapsed Catholic, to “Never going back” Catholic.
I had other more personal and local reasons too, but my support of a woman’s right to control of her body, including abortion, was always a sore point between myself and other more conservative Catholics. Back then that included, and apparently still does, the entire Church hierarchy.
TOP123
@OzarkHillbilly: thought this was as good a comment as any to respond to, but essentially it was your mentioning the Bible:
How many of us have read it lately? I studied comp rel in uni, and amittedly am not the go-to expert. That said? How many of us have read the Bible recently? That Numbers 5 mentioned by the commenter, well, that’s some weird sh#t. And there’s a lot more there.
It’s funny, if you had people read the Quran vs the Bible, there’s a lot more whoa wait WHAT? In the Bible.
Cermet
@Bartholomew: The bible does have a say – just that it fully supports the killing of a fetus; a number of examples occur in the bible where a pregnant woman is to be put to death for some crime and that is ok by dog … I mean god. Further, the bible clearly states that a fetus has no soul until after the first trimester. So, the bible does have a good bit to say on this topic. The only thing it never says is abortion is wrong or prohibited. In that, it is clear and since abortion was well known and practiced both during the time the old testament and new were written, this says a lot, in fact.
Roger Moore
@Seebach:
Henry VIII for President!
A Ghost To Most
@srv:
Leave the hospitals, burn the churches
Iowa Old Lady
Since we’re talking about the Catholic Church, Pope Francis just said that Donald Trump is not a Christian because he talks about walls not bridges.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
Oh, my sides – we got us some red hot Trump on Pope action.
Trump starting to troll Pope
Then what the fuck can the Talibornagain, the Southern Baptists, the Calvinists, the Mormons, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Wahhabists or Opus Dei/SSPX do with their free time? Knit?
trollhattan
@Ella in New Mexico:
Great post, very informative.
Many will have read of the Redding, CA Catholic hospital that refused to provide a tubal ligation and has been upheld twice by the same judge. Not an abortion, mind, a tubal ligation following a scheduled cesarean in a city with but one major hospital. What sixteenth century thinking is behind any of this?
In related news, the pope (you know, the liberal one) has “…firmly ruled out abortion for pregnant women who fear effects of the Zika virus — but said that ‘in certain cases,’ contraception might be a ‘lesser evil’, without directly approving its use.”
MattF
@Iowa Old Lady: I’d like to see him dis the Pope. You can just sense the turmoil happening right now in that lizard brain. C’mon Donald… you can do it!
ETA: Well, there he goes!
Roger Moore
@Iowa Old Lady:
An appropriate comment, considering that the Pope’s formal Latin title (Pontifex Maximus) literally means “chief bridge builder”.
Cermet
@MattF: tRump hitting the Pope is good news for him; most southern states are extreme Baptist and these guys hate the Pope even more than they hate Jews, Catholics and rabid dogs … . Really, first President Obama says he can’t be elected and how the Pope saw’s he isn’t a Christian. Its a good week for tRump – he will just go up in the Southern States polls across the board.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Cermet:
I see you talked to my mom. She loves her some white bully boys and hates this Pope, who she says “doesn’t get it” and is “too nicey-nice”. She didn’t like it when I said how much I like this guy and that the two previous ones were criminal thugs before changing the subject.
Did I mention that she lives by Fox News and talk radio?
Catherine D.
@of the above comments, the Pope just said contraceptives mmay be ok in areas affected by the:
Hey, my Catholic mother went to a Jewish OB and a Jewish hospital. We were born kosher :)
Zinsky
I wish the knuckle-draggers would get it through their thick heads that making abortion illegal will not end abortion. Any more than making alcohol illegal during Prohibition ended drinking.
Matt McIrvin
@Zinsky: I don’t think it actually matters to them. The point isn’t to end abortion, it’s to be pure as the driven snow and in every way disapproving of abortion.
scav
If the Catholic God had wanted ‘Mekans to have the highest and best health care, he would have made them all rich and not bought up all the rights to the personal beliefs of the doctors by owning where they work.
BruceJ
“As a result, the report claims, several of the women suffered infection or emotional trauma, or had to undergo unnecessary surgery. ”
One, those are slam-dunk, high 6 and 7 figure malpractice lawsuits which in a just world would bankrupt the assholes running that hospital, and two, the fucking “church” doesn’t care what happens to the brood mares, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
gvg
My grandmothers first child was dead in utero. The first doctor had her waiting in the hospital for the decaying child to deliver naturally…..her mother waited anxiously in the hospital and ran into the childhood doc, who took over the case and removed the fetus. Not Catholic but influenced by that thought. Grandfather left the church because Catholic church said save baby before mother and his sister died. used to be common, I think people have “forgotten”. I had an argument with a Catholic Doctor online years ago who insisted that was never the official position of the church and maybe my family had run into an extremist priest. Had web site links that seemed to support it but at the same time there were always a lot of stories saying it was the policy, and look at what is happening now? News stories about women dying in Catholic hospitals NOW. A lost of people also insist that it never really happens that there is a choice between the lives……people don’t like to have their side look bad and just won’t see uncomfortable facts.
Marcelo
@RoonieRoo: Is Heart Hospital of Austin on 40th and Lamar next to Central Market a Catholic facility?
EDIT: Nevermind, it’s a part of St. David’s. Well damn.
Feathers
I grew up in the 60s and knew that Catholic women knew better than to have their babies at Catholic hospitals. But we learned that the life of the baby must be saved rather than the mother – because the baby had not been baptized and thus would never know Christ’s love, while if the mother died, she had had her chance to prepare her immortal soul for the afterlife. This is the reasoning behind so many of these stupid “sanctity of life” rules. They’ve just reframed them to fit into the current anti-abortion political movement, rather than going with pure doctrine, which they wouldn’t be able to get away with as easily.
I don’t understand why someone isn’t putting together a class action lawsuit with the women harmed by Catholic hospitals. Women unable to conceive after having a surgical removal of an ectopic pregnancy rather than the medical best practice pharmaceutical one would be a good start.
Obamacare should not have given an inch to these fools.
Marjowil
@MattF: My mother had an illegal abortion in the 40s. The family doctor performed it in a friend’s home. We seem headed back toward those days.
When I was pregnant (the 90s) in Michigan, I briefly considered going to a Catholic hospital down the street, until I realized that in an emergency when it was bet. me and the fetus, I’d be toast.
Marjowil
@Kay: Nobody thinks they will be in such a situation until it is too late. Women who are against abortion (and men too) have no clue the kinds of life and death decisions they may have to make one day.
Mnemosyne
@Marjowil:
They also don’t have enough empathy to imagine what it might be like to have to face that decision. If they didn’t have to do it, it doesn’t exist for anyone.
moderateindy
When arguing abortion I find it good practice to use their own doctrine against them.
I use to be friends with a Franciscan that was a professor of theology at a university in Chicago. Apparently there was one the end of the world scenario from some iconic Jewish scholar way back when which said that there is a finite amount of souls, and as a child is born they are bestowed with a soul. The world ends when a child is born, and there are no souls left.
So I say their own Judeo-Christian mythology says that a baby has no soul, until it’s born.
Second, I say if original sin exists than God is arbitrarily condemning craploads of souls to hell without any chance to accept him, even by proxy, aka baptism. But if they don’t have a soul then that scenario does not exist, and they aren’t damned. Thus abortion isn’t killing a human. So either they have a cruel spiteful god, or abortions don’t end the life of a human being.
If they say, “God makes exceptions for those who don’t come to term” , Then I say, “abortions must fall under the same exception, so you are actually doing a nice thing by guaranteeing that soul goes straight to heaven, and doesn’t have to deal with all the pain that comes with living on planet earth.
Of course they always brush the argument aside because religion, and logic are traditionally at odds anyway, so why bother actually examining their beliefs. After all God seems to frown on such actions. I’ve always found it very interesting that the first cautionary tale in the bible was about humans trying to gain knowledge, and the terrible consequences of such endeavors.
maeve
@Capri:
Catholic hospitals also refuse to perform tubal ligation at the same time as a Cesarean thus forcing women to have a 2nd surgery in another facility if they want them. Thus I assume they wont do vasectomies – but you’re right, its not publicized.
My grandmother died in a Catholic hospital – she had a stroke and then a second stroke that compromised her autonomic functions (I think that’s the word – breathing, heartbeat etc) – they were quite good at 1) not pretending there was anything they could do 2) not recommending feeding tubes or machines. The nurses were better than the doctors at communicating with my Mom. (Thus I am surprised at another’s comment that Catholic hospitals won’t honor DNRs. Not pulling the plug I would expect but not using extra measures to extend life I would not expect – however Catholics (and groups of Catholics) differ.)
burnspbesq
Licenses need to be revoked over this.
Indictments would also be nice.
burnspbesq
@srv:
Thereby leaving millions of Americans without access to hospital care.
Yup, that makes perfect sense.
humboldtblue
@ruemara: There is a no more compelling reason I will gladly vote for Clinton than her support for PP and women’s health care.
humboldtblue
@? Martin: Thanks for that lesson, I had no idea Harris had done that.
State Senator Hannah-BethJackson along with the Democratic women’s caucus in the legislature just introduced a package of five bills all aimed at women’s health, fair pay and families. They include Equal Pay and Job Opportunities
Gender Pay Equity – AB 1676 (Assemblymember Campos); Access to Childcare
Child Care Budget Request — Democratic members of the Women’s Caucus; Family-Friendly Workplaces
New Parent Leave—To be Introduced (Senator Jackson); The Reliable Scheduling Act—SB 878 (Senator Leyva); Building Economic Stability by Addressing Poverty
Repeal CalWORKs Maximum Family Grant – SB 23 (Senator Mitchell)
msb
I read this in The Guardian and ground my teeth. This is exactly why Savita Halappanavar spent the last week of her life dying in a hospital that could have saved her life. If Catholics care so much about life, why don’t the lives of actual women interest them?