Posted on 05/31/2017 7:17:11 AM PDT by marshmallow
A Catholic religious order in Ireland has agreed to withdraw from the administration of three hospitals, because of concerns that Catholic moral principles would influence health-care decisions.
The Sisters of Charity announced that they cede control of the St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group, which the hospitals, handing over ownership to a secular corporation—which will also be called “St. Vincent’s”—established for that purpose.
Irish health minister welcomed the move, saying: “It directly addresses concerns regarding the question of religious influence in the new National Maternity Hospital and further illustrates the constructive role of the sisters to facilitate this landmark project.”
A plan to locate the National Maternity Hospital at St. Vincent’s had encountered opposition because of concerns that a Catholic institution would not allow for abortions and sterilizations.
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Apparently, I’m in the minority. I would very much prefer to be treated at a hospital guided by morality.
Can’t have hospitals refusing to murder the helpless and inncoent!
Unless you are a mother giving birth. Catholic hospitals will save the child first. Not everyone agrees with that approach
This is not true. There is no "first" or "second" in the basic human right to simply go on living.
In a life threatening situation, the doctor is ethically obliged to try to save both patients, the mother and the baby. If it is literally impossible to save the baby --- for example, mom is in early pregnancy and her uterus is cancerous --- the doctor is perfectly justified both in morality and in law, to lay aside any futile heroic interventions for the baby, do the hysterectomy and focus himself entirely on saving the mother.
Of course if the baby's development is far enough advanced that there's a real chance to save both, you have to try to save both. That's basic medical ethics.
So the Sisters just gave up? Preemptive surrender?
I don’t know whether to weep, throw up or scream Bloody murder. They should turn the facility into a pregnancy aid center.
If they can’t do that, it would be better to dynamite the place.
A very sad turn of events, if this is true.
So. . . Jesus’ action in throwing the money changers out of the temple now must become just removing oneself from the temple space and allowing the “money changers” full run of the place?
Here is a dumb question. Why did not these Sisters of Charity turn down or withdraw from the government’s plan to build a maternity hospital at one of their three hospitals?
There has to be more to this story than meets the eye. Perhaps the sisters are using the new maternity hospital as an excuse to get out of the hospital business.
In any event, this is just one more slip down the slippery slope towards the destruction of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Have you ever worked as an RN or MD at a Catholic hospital?
No.
The source of that rumor was because in the past, they refused to dismember the kid in a blocked childbirth. Instead they would try a live delivery with version and extraction, or a Caesarian section, which had a higher risk to the mother. Nowadays, such problems are almost non existent.
The movie the Cardinal had this dilemma, back in the early 1900s where the family refused dismemberment and the girl died during surgery
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