A revised version of my earlier piece today on the plight of Jessica Mann, who was refused potentially lifesaving care at a U.S. Catholic hospital because her treatment involved tubal ligation, has been published in the New Republic: “Religious freedom has no place in hospitals—especially Catholic ones.” I didn’t choose the title, but of course what I meant was that hospitals supported in any way by the government, as was Mann’s, should not be allowed to discriminate against patients or their treatment on religious grounds.
My New Republic piece on the Pope, Catholic hospitals, and medical care
September 23, 2015 • 2:00 pm
I thought you were on vacation… do you ever slow down? 😉
That’s an unfortunate headline, but editors have to err on the side of “clickability” I suppose.
BTW, scratch Hili’s belly for me.
Please.
Done!
Saw a post on facebook that indicates that the ACLU is weighing in and may take legal action.
Good one.
PS Can you please keep us informed about the cherry pie situation there – you posted a picture of a whole pie yesterday, it must have been served by now…
Did you have it with vanilla ice cream, was it delicious?
Fortunately, the New Republic headline is “Religious Freedom Has No Place in Hospitals—Even Catholic Ones.” The word “even” sounds much less offensive than “especially.”
I heard that the pope praised the ‘courage’ of US bishops in dealing with the sexual abuse scandal. He still refuses to recognize the institutionalisation of child rape in the catholic church. Don’t forget Bergoglio visited Bernard Law just a few hours after becoming pope. Churches are still hiding behind legal technicalities.
Bergoglio, talk is cheap. When will you take responsibility?
Christianity _began_ with a child rape.
I thought it began with a randy chick having a (probably consensual) naughty on the side and inventing a wild story to fool her geriatric husband. But that’s just me… mind in the gutter as usual. 😉
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Good point.
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“I didn’t choose the title”
Reminds me of tale, perhaps apocryphal, from the days of the fiction pulps.
Very often, many of the stories in an issue would be written by the same writer, and the editor would change the byline to present the magazine as more diverse in source than it was.
One such writer, however, became annoyed at the constant changing of his titles and bylines, so he started sending in his stories with titles such as “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, etc. (Yes, because these are short fiction pieces in my examples, you’d use quotation marks and not underlining.)
Supposedly the editor never complained or said a word. He just continued to retitle the stories and put on the bylines, as usual.
Lurker111,
I like this recounting of yours of the perhaps apocryphal tale.
Bergoglio’s popularism on climate change is making some headway too. Or is it?
“Ignore Pope on climate, says Republican Marsha Blackburn …
Speaking as part of a forthcoming Radio 4 documentary series “Climate Change – Are we Feeling Lucky?”, she asserted that the earth had cooled in the last 13 years by 1F. And she said no evidence would persuade her of man-made warming.
She also rejected the theory of evolution. Scientists say her views are “complete nonsense”. …
Ms Blackburn declined to name the sources of her scepticism about mainstream science.
“We have met with different researchers,” she says. “We had had numerous committee meetings in which we’ve had individuals come to present and from all of that and what we have been able to read you come to an opinion. …
Professor Brian Hoskins, a leading climate scientist at the Royal Society said her remarks were “absolutely staggering”.
“It is nonsense to say the world has cooled,” Hoskins said. “If no evidence will persuade Ms Blackburn of climate change, that shows how well-founded her views are.””
[ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34342808 ; my bold]
I am partly sorry, partly amused to note this, but the US House energy committee is an international and scientific joke.
First sentence should have been “… making some headway.” C&P error.
Sort of like having the Saudis heading the Human Rights committee in the UN.
Sigh. I have deadlines, but I couldn’t stay away from Jerry’s piece. And after reading, I had to make my voice heard. Oh, well.
Strike that. I _may_ comment there, the bottom part page won’t finish loading. (And perhaps there isn’t a comment option, as it usually is; I wrote a text without checking.)
The NR page won’t finish loading in Chrome, but it does in IE and it has no comment option.
That is a first, I think. It may be a server problem. It may be an editor’s choice, Jerry’s articles make for long comment threads.
But since it is concurrent with his visit, it also births all sorts of funny conspiracy theories…
Ha! Concurrent with Bergoglio’s visit, not Jerry’s visit/absence.
[Though the latter works as conspiracy material too, of course.]
We have to use every opportunity we can to exchange “Religious Freedom” with “Religious Privilege” wherever we can.
Congrats on another NR piece, Jerry! Now off to give you a click; I know it will be good!
Can anyone tell me why I can’t see any comments over there?