True story.
One night a woman came to our Catholic hospital ER in Central Texas because she was sexually assaulted.
The doctor prescribed Plan B because the victim didn’t want to carry her rapist’s baby.
Our hospital refused to dispense it. Poor woman had to wait two days to get it from CVS.
This is the reality
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
“Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!”
Lots of hospitals were started by churches.
One of Texas’s biggest medical providers is the Methodist Health System, with 12 full-fledged hospitals and over 100 clinics that started as a hospital in Houston founded by the Methodist church. For most people, it’s just another hospital. The church doesn’t get any of the money or anything.
Catholic hospitals, however, are a little more notorious for denying care based on religious principles - with abortion and birth control being the big one. They won’t do abortions, offer contraceptives, or perform vasectomies, for instance.
I’m not religious in the slightest, but in my experience, them Methodists seem pretty chill. Worked with one to make their website a while a back and their pastor was the most laid back, easy to work with dude, loved everyone, black, white, brown, straight, gay, trans, whatever. I miss that guy.
Be careful now.
The methodist church had a schism recently. There’s the “United Methodist” and the new “Global Methodist.”
The Global Methodist church was founded specifically to exclude gay people. They also have much smaller apportionments (church’s equivalent of taxes that the individual churches pay to the organization and is used for things like relief work), and allow the congregations to directly hore and fire clergy so the preachers can’t get all uppity and tell them not to be prejudiced or to be kind or welcoming to people who aren’t like you.
Ahhh, interesting. These guys were United Methodists, if that wasn’t obvious haha.
The split didn’t happen until 2024.
The cool thing was, when the biggot-wing left, the United Methodists were able to finally fully embrace inclusion!
Catholic and Methodist are very different. Catholic doesn’t allow abortion but. Turn a blind eye to premarital sex.
The Seventh Day Adventists also have a shit ton of hospitals, the largest among the Protestant denominations iirc. You’ve probably heard of the Kellogg families impact on things like popularizing circumcision…
SDAs also have a substantial impact on the modern conspiracy theory landscape. The cult at Waco was an offshoot, Bill Cooper incorporated their propaganda in his weirdo narrative, if you live in the US you’ve probably got their book mailed about the “Sunday Law”….
Fun facts (they are not fun):
After a forced stay in their psych ward, my local Catholic Hospital asked me if I “felt the light of god during [my] stay?” They also don’t prescribe birth control and have a general hate-boner for having to help fat women. I had to teach my doctor what a trans person is and how to address one (this decade).
Anyway, they bought all the medical buildings in all the towns near me. Woo!
Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
Excuse my life, but what the fuck is a Catholic hospital?
“Welcome good sirs to my church of the Bristol Stool Chart!”
What’s a Catholic hospital? It is a scram!
Is that a number 7?
There’s a lot of Catholic-owned hospitals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_health_care
Sorry shitstain, other parts of the country actually allow women to have rights.
Go fail at saving some kids from drowning and let the civilized people do their thing.
Sorry, we don’t handle verdicts from rogue nations
Fugitive slave act redux
Ken Paxton out here looking like he had a chemical peel.
To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.
Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.
You’d think a world-class corporate news organiztion like Associated Press would be able to shoehorn that into the title somehow. And yet.
That’s a lot of information the shoe horn into the title when it seems perfectly reasonable just put it in the article itself. That’s what articles are for after all, the context.
“as per NY law” ?
four words? none longer than three letters? That’s a lot? Really?
No.
Man I don’t think you understand what the point of a title is. It’s not to give you all the information you need. That’s what the article is for.
Does a title affect people? Just reading one sentence about something “newsworthy”? Do you think titles alone can have an effect on the political nature of a country, or a social group?
I don’t think you understand what the point of a title is. Or what I’m talking about. Despite it being painfully obvious.
It’s literally the second paragraph of the article. You’d think a literate person with time to write inane comments would be able to read the article. And yet.
We’re gonna do this again?
Hey! THE HEADLINE and THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE are two different things. Can you grasp the concept?? Does your inanity know no bounds?! Have you, at long last, no sense of decency, sir?!
What are you talking about???
In journalism, headlines have always been used to try to entice people into reading the article. Not to give the entire story so that people won’t need to read the article.
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Texas politicians are so shit they need to infect other states.
Get your shit together Texas.
They won’t.
We’ll just have to do what we’ve always done and sit back and watch Texans continually punch themselves in the face because they can’t figure things out.
“While I’m not entirely sure how things work in Texas, here in New York, a rejection means the matter is closed,” Bruck wrote in a letter to Texas officials.
I imagine Paxton blew a gasket over that. Lmao.
Fugitive Slave Acts all over again.
Poor boy has had a rough week, first his wife says she wants a divorce because of his adultery and now he finds out he’s impotent in a different state.
Being a dog fearing christian is tough in this day and age, especially when you’re actually a shitbag.
There’s absolutely no way in hell that it’s just adultery, not when she explicitly says that she can’t remain and still hold on to her ‘Christian’ values. Paxton has done a fuckton of things things that explicitly go against what Jesus taught in the four gospels, and against damn near everything that Paul wrote as well, so it’s gotta be more than just extra-marital sex.
Why are texan men so red and have squeaky voices?
He looks like a had a mild allergic reaction to seafood
Alcoholism? Not sure on the voices.
They’re low-T soyboys?
Definitely part of it, never met a Texan man who didn’t rage and throw a shitfit over the most minor of inconveniences.
I used to do regular driving trips to Mexico from NC and I swear to god everything was always fine in every state I crossed. People were nice, no police problems, roads well maintained, no traffic and quick city bypasses.
But when I cross into Texas suddenly everything would turn to shit. The people were shitty, the roads were shitty, the radio stations were shitty, the police were shitty, Houston was a massive cluster fuck of detours and pot holes, the heat, the smells, literally EVERYTHING was just a bit shittier there than anywhere else. It was always a blessing to get across the Rio Grande and back into a civilized country.
You drove through one big city and it sucked. LA and Chicago would have sucked to drive through as well.
New York is better now I hear since they implemented congestion pricing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Huston is the biggest city I have ever been to.
Cities aren’t a problem if you can avoid driving into them. But Houston literally had no bypass because they were being worked on. You were detoured through a maze of city streets. So if a detour sign was missing or fallen over (and they often were) then you were lost. This was before GPS and smartphones were common.
It was like that for years.
Not rhetorical question: why don’t more people buy and sell abortion pills on the dark web?
Fraud?
Because then it is not regulated. Meaning you’ll have scammers selling fake abortion pills, which will do nothing. Or even worse, pills with something else that could get you addicted.
People are assholes, especially in a capitalist system. Regulation is necessary here.
pills with something else that could get you addicted.
It’s hard to get addicted to an unknown substance you’ve taken unwillingly and don’t know what it is in order to get another hit.
I’d be more considered about psychos selling literal poison.
If you crave that abortion pill again, you’ll know.
Unexpected trips don’t tend to be fun. Scary trips don’t tend to lead to addiction.
Also, drugs are a lot more expensive than abortion pills, so whomever is putting the drugs in them is losing a lot of money doing so.
thats what happened to me chews on a handful of abortion pills
