Thread by @punkitt3n

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 1/You’re welcome. It’s important to base legislative and medical policy off of evidence based information at hand rather than though emotions or religious dogma. We have actual churches where religious freedoms can be fully exercised by the people who choose to join them.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 2/ Hospitals should be solely basing medical decisions off of medical science as well as their patients needs and wishes.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 3/ Was it isolated bad judgment in those cases? Or is it is the inevitable consequence of hospitals shaping their care based off of religious doctrine rather than medical science and the best interest of the patients it serves?

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 4/ Doctors associated with these hospitals have stated they feel it is the latter. It’s hard to rationally argue against those doctors claims when:

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 5/ aclu.org/blog/reproduct…

“the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which sets the rules for all Catholic hospitals, has said that its hospitals should let a woman die rather provide an emergency abortion...

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 6/ The bishops made their policy crystal-clear when a Catholic hospital in Phoenix defied the bishops’ rules and saved a woman’s life by providing an abortion. The bishops excommunicated a nun who was on the committee that approved the abortion, ...

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 7/ and the hospital was stripped of its Catholic status.”

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 8/ When using good medical judgment and saving an autonomous, living and breathing humans life is met with hospital staff being personally excommunicated and as a hospital losing their affiliation and status with the church

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 9/ what are the staff of these hospitals likely to do once that precedent and those directives have been set?

Please see the attached link above for the churches statements regarding when a woman’s life can be saved through abortion in their hospitals.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 10/ It is not simply when a woman’s life is in danger. It is only if the loss of the fetus is a secondary result of the procedure.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 11/ So if the woman’s placenta has separated and there is no chance of the pregnancy continuing most doctors in secular hospitals would induce labor and speed the process along. Performing a d&c if necessary to avoid sepsis and death. They see that the pregnancy is not viable.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 12/ The woman’s life and well being are rightfully the main focus. The woman is told the painful truth and able to make an informed decision regarding her health.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 13/ There are doctors in Catholic hospitals who are not allowed to inform their clients of the true status of their health or that they should seek care elsewhere and it is all due to the guidelines set by the bishops.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 14/ Bishops, not doctors, are determining the course of care for pregnant women.

The church would allow a woman with cancer of the uterus to have her uterus removed with the secondary effect of the pregnancy being aborted.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 15/ The church says this is because the cancerous organ, not the pregnancy itself, is being addressed. This is a lethal stance as some pregnancies become non-viable and the only solution to save the woman’s life is to end the pregnancy.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 16/ According to the church, doctors can do nothing as long as there is a fetal heartbeat. In the meantime the women experience unnecessary emotional and physical trauma that can result in sterility, the need for additional surgeries and hospitalization or even tragic death

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 17/ due to waiting too long to treat her properly. All while taxpayers subsidize these hospitals and the laws of our country support the women receiving the care she requires.

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 18/ Here is the churches statement regarding their stance of when it is acceptable to save women’s lives:
usccb.org/about/doctrine…

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 19/ The USA has the worst rates of maternal death in the developed world.

npr.org/2017/05/12/528…

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 20/ health.harvard.edu/blog/a-soaring…

@AmazedNot @FirearmsPB @jesse_beck5606 @scotusreporter 21/ We need to improve women’s healthcare not limit and restrict it further. Women are literally dying.

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