Religion
Related: About this forum"Where Are All the Atheist Hospitals?" Asks Catholic Who Never Did Any Research
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/04/08/where-are-all-the-atheist-hospitals-asks-catholic-who-never-did-any-research/I have no doubt there are atheist hospitals, at least if were talking about hospitals built and run by atheists. You wouldnt know it because we dont slap Christopher Hitchens name on them, but non-Catholic hospitals run exactly the way youd expect if an atheist built them.
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Meanwhile, there are atheist-run charitable groups. And atheist scientists conduct a lot of the research used to help people in those hospitals. Unlike Catholic churches, we dont have the built-in advantage of money coming in from everyone who claims to be an atheist. We dont have their infrastructure, either. Why would we?
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By the way, lets not forget Catholic hospitals do plenty of harm, too. They wont perform abortions, even if a womans life is in danger. They wont help with ectopic pregnancies. They wont perform vasectomies. They dont provide birth control or emergency contraception. Even in Canada, where physician-assisted death is legal, Catholic hospitals would rather see patients suffer indefinitely instead of helping them end life on their own terms.
MineralMan
(146,341 posts)Where are all the secular, non-religious hospitals. The answer, of course, is that they are everywhere. University hospitals. Private hospitals not affiliated with churches. Doctor-owned hospitals, and government owned hospitals, too.
All of those secular hospitals provide the full spectrum of care, including reproductive choice care, unlike those Catholic hospitals.
Ernesto
(5,077 posts)I call them "Misogyny Health".
Heddi
(18,312 posts)I don't feel like posting the links but a few years ago I posted quite a bit about the Providence et al. groups in the PNW that are just eating up once secular smaller hospital groups leaving a complete lack of any secular hospitals in many areas. This is an issue b/c Washington allows for physician-assisted suicide, abortion, etc, and the question remained how these services would be affected once once non-religious hospital and medical groups were run by devoutly religious organizations. At last I knew, only one medical group was specifically non-religious. As I am no longer in the PNW and do not have a license to practice there anymore (nor do I plan on returning to the area) I don't keep up with the news as much as i used to.
Of course, our ship-bound friends of yore used to reply it wasn't any big deal, just drive across the state to *the* secular hospital to get an abortion or whatever, or get your prophylaxis at 7/11 like the rest of us. Sigh. Those were the good old days.
dreamland
(964 posts)They spout religion over science. I don't see praying rooms but rather scientific instruments used by scientifically trained doctors. IMO, their very existence is irony. Why they don't just have give their patients thoughts and prayers.