{"id":186214,"date":"2014-04-01T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/01\/why-the-catholic-church-should-be-out-of-the-hospital-business\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T00:09:00","slug":"why-the-catholic-church-should-be-out-of-the-hospital-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/01\/why-the-catholic-church-should-be-out-of-the-hospital-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Catholic Church Should Be Out of the Hospital Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic hospital in (where else) Oklahoma has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/04\/01\/doctors_at_oklahoma_hospital_banned_from_prescribing_birth_control\/\">forbade its doctors from prescribing birth control<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Doctors affiliated with a small  Catholic hospital in Bartlesville,&nbsp;Okla., are no longer allowed to  prescribe contraception for the purposes of birth control, according to a  report from the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/examiner-enterprise.com\/news\/local-news\/reports-jpmc-doctors-no-longer-allowed-prescribe-birth-control#sthash.un9PnBna.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Administrators  at Jane Phillips Medical Center are reported to have held a meeting  last week to inform doctors of the new directive barring them from  prescribing contraceptives as birth control; according to the  Examiner-Enterprise, doctors are allowed to prescribe contraceptives for  non-birth control purposes, such as cramps, menstrual pain or endometriosis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI have spoken to my doctor about my birth  control options,\u201d one patient impacted by the directive told the  Examiner-Enterprise. \u201cI was told that my physician has been instructed  that they can no longer write prescriptions for birth control as birth  control. This effects me because I take birth control as birth control.  There are other ways to receive birth control, for example headaches,  cramps, excessive bleeding \u2014 but I have none of those symptoms.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that this is not just employees, or on the hospital premises, this is a directive given to any doctor with admitting privileges. <\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church has been engaging in a massive hospital buying binge, and they are using it to make not just abortion, but birth control, unavailable across the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic hospital in (where else) Oklahoma has forbade its doctors from prescribing birth control: Doctors affiliated with a small Catholic hospital in Bartlesville,&nbsp;Okla., are no longer allowed to prescribe contraception for the purposes of birth control, according to a report from the&nbsp;Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.Administrators at Jane Phillips Medical Center are reported to have held a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,970,1150,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-corruption","category-public-health","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186214"}],"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=186214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}