{"id":183447,"date":"2013-02-26T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/26\/what-pz-myers-said\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T01:37:00","slug":"what-pz-myers-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/02\/26\/what-pz-myers-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What PZ Myers Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He suggests that the buying spree of hospitals by the Catholic church <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2013\/02\/24\/dont-let-catholics-run-hospitals\/\">is a stealth assault on reproductive rights and needs to be stopped<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Imagine if you lived in a town where the only hospital was owned by the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and you were in a car accident \u2014 you\u2019ve got a ruptured spleen, you\u2019re bleeding internally, and your life is at risk. The surgeon is going to go in and stitch up and cauterize everything, but you\u2019re warned that they don\u2019t keep any kind of blood supply in the hospital, and they refuse to do blood transfusions \u2014 they have an in-house professional ethicist (who is a Jehovah\u2019s Witness, of course) who rejects the morality of exchanging sacred blood, and the administrators have signed an agreement with the church to never, under any circumstances, carry out blood transfusions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">If you need a blood transfusion, they say, don\u2019t worry, the ambulance will take you to a different hospital\u202650 miles away. You, unfortunately, are in shock, you\u2019ve got a gusher pouring blood into your body cavity, and this is not an option. You get to die.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">So why are Catholics allowed to buy up and impose Catholic dogma on hospitals? Is it because their ignorant dogma does the greatest harm to women (especially those slutty ones who have sex) and bizarre rules about reproduction don\u2019t directly harm men?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But Catholics are buying up hospitals all over the country. They\u2019ve got declining attendance, they\u2019re closing churches, they\u2019re having trouble recruiting priests, but they\u2019ve still got buckets of money, and they\u2019re using that money to impose control in another way \u2014 by taking over your health care<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His conclusion is 100% spot on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Don\u2019t let Catholics control your hospitals. Keep the church out of your health care decisions. Make Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) illegal \u2014 individuals may follow them at their personal discretion, but no health care facility gets to impose them on their patients, especially when they defy the law.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your religious freedom does not include the right to impose your views on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He suggests that the buying spree of hospitals by the Catholic church is a stealth assault on reproductive rights and needs to be stopped: Imagine if you lived in a town where the only hospital was owned by the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, and you were in a car accident \u2014 you\u2019ve got a ruptured spleen, you\u2019re &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1002,1046,1021,1122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-religion","category-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}