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Rick Moran gets all huffy:
The justification for this outrageously exaggerated, and deliberately falsified charge is that Brown voted for a provision that would allow hospital workers not to inform rape victims of the availability of the “Morning After” pill if their religious convictions prevented them from doing so.
Not exactly – or even remotely similar to – “turning away” rape victims from hospitals but hey! Who’s keeping track, right?
A side note of reality; there has never been a recorded instance of any hospital worker refusing to give the morning after pill to a rape victim if it was requested.
A-hem:
The California Court of Appeals discussed in Brownfield v. Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital, 256 Cal. Rptr. (1989), whether a health-care giver must inform a patient of medical options that the care-giver morally opposes. In this case, workers in a Catholic hospital refused to inform a rape victim about the “morning-after pill” (diethylstilbestrol) despite the victim’s mother requesting the information, the possibility of a pregnancy, and the need for treatment within 72 hours, because such information conflicted with the institutions’ religious beliefs. The plaintiff did not become pregnant, and the court dismissed the case because there was no compensable injury; the plaintiff did not appeal the dismissal.
Also, Lori Boyer.
Boyer had grabbed her clothes and dashed for her car in the freezing predawn darkness. Yet she’d had the clarity to drive straight to the nearest emergency room — Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania — to ask for a rape kit and talk to a sexual assault counselor. Bruised and in pain, she grimaced through the pelvic exam. Now, as Boyer watched Martin Gish, M.D., jot some final notes into her chart, she thought of something the rape counselor had mentioned earlier.
“I’ll need the morning-after pill,” she told him.
Dr. Gish looked up. He was a trim, middle-aged man with graying hair and, Boyer thought, an aloof manner. “No,” Boyer says he replied abruptly. “I can’t do that.” He turned back to his writing.
Boyer stared in disbelief. No? She tried vainly to hold back tears as she reasoned with the doctor: She was midcycle, putting her in danger of getting pregnant. Emergency contraception is most effective within a short time frame, ideally 72 hours. If he wasn’t willing to write an EC prescription she’d be glad to see a different doctor. Dr. Gish simply shook his head. “It’s against my religion,” he said, according to Boyer. (When contacted, the doctor declined to comment for this article.)
Boyer left the emergency room empty-handed.
30 seconds in teh Google can be so, what’s the word? Oh, yes: enlightening.
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Moran is a douche pretending to be intellectual. He’ll be all “The Republican party is so fucked up because they are so wrong about blah blah blah…”, but then he always reverts to type and hates on Democrats.
He’s really too predictable. He may not be quite as rabid as the dead-enders who would vote for anyone with an R after their name, just after seeing the same R sodomize and kill their daughter on national TV. But he’s still pretty bad. He just pretends to be civil.
The gurgle is this morans largest enema. Sometimes he refers to it as “Enema Mine”.
The hilarious aspect of the Massachusetts special election is that this is the hill to die on for the Democrats lest they lose that crucial 60th vote. They never had 60 votes – they had forty-something, plus-or-minus the DINOs, the Blue Dogs, and the execrable Joe Lieberman. The Dems do themselves a huge injury by both by pretending that they have a filibuster-proof majority now and insisting that they can’t do anything if they lose it. Remember how important it was to get Al Franken seated so that the Democrats could really Get Things Done? Well, Franken was seated and Congress spent the year fiddling with healthcare reform while neglecting or ignoring the things that have people angry and shit scared. It’s telling that the Democrats failed to re-enact the estate tax (The Republican dream of no “Death Tax” required Democratic inaction to come true.) and that they failed to readjust the threshold for the Alternative Minimum Tax while they bargained away “the greatest opportunity to reform health care in a generation”.
Don’t these guys ever get tired of
being wrong?LYING?Fixed.
Yes, but that gets in the way of their outrage. And we can’t have that, can we?
T-Bogg,
Every once in a while you get me, ah…worked up.
No, not in that way.
I just wrote a check to Planned Parenthood in the name of Dr. Martin Gish.
Thank you, Dr. Gish, You are so special.
Revenge is a dish best served ….um, lessee, ah! with a nice check to the enemy of the one on whom revenge is taken.
(phrasing a little awkward, but what the heck.)
Nice gesture Buckley.
30 seconds in teh Google can be so, what’s the word? Oh, yes: enlightening.
There are none so blind as those who (determinedly, intransigently, pig-headedly) will not see.
The enlightenment! It BURNS!!
In that case doctor, my religion requires me to punch you in the nuts.
A side note of reality; there has never been a recorded instance of any hospital worker refusing to give the morning after pill to a rape victim if it was requested.
Ah ha ha! That’s where he’s got you, though, eeeevil libtards! See, in CONTEXT, he was talking about the denial of morning after pill in Massachusetts, and none of your so-called “googling” produced an example from there. Ah Ha! If any further googling provides evidence that it has happened in Mass, then that only further strengthens his point.
I’ll get the electron microscope so we can find them.
The right has come to love its narratives so much that when facts rear their ugly heads the right just breezes on by them with fingers jammed in their ears and chanting “We can’t hear you, we can’t hear you!”
The truth is not their friend, so they ignore it. They told us long ago that they create their own reality and this is just further proof that it is true.
You have a much more benign and tolerant religion than I do.
Cue Joe Lieberman: “It’s just a short ride to another ER”
Every ejaculation deserves a name.
Usually it’s “Oh god!” except for Jim Hoft who uses “Hannah Montana!”.