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In reply to the discussion: When the Catholic Church owns your doctor: The insidious new threat to affordable birth control [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)72. A Board of Directors decides these things, not the CEO.
Other than ominous organ music about the CEO salary, do you have any fact that explains why Swedish would agree to such a misogynist, rapacious, and sinister agreement?
Other than common business practice, of course.
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trotsky
May 2015
OP
The church is doing everything in its power to force women to give birth.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#19
Well. What I see are Catholic bashing threads to the exclusion of other religions
Cleita
May 2015
#38
Right. The RCC's war against women isn't a good enough reason to criticize the church.
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#79
What I would like is for women to be treated equally and dogma left out of healthcare.
PeaceNikki
May 2015
#32
I want that to. What I'm pointing out is that the leopard is not going to change its
Cleita
May 2015
#36
I am working on it by supporting the ACLU and being politically active, but thanks?
PeaceNikki
May 2015
#37
In this case, the 'community' being subsumed, is the Greater Seattle Area.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#50
You shouldn't go to a Catholic hospital and expect you will get decent care.
PeaceNikki
May 2015
#15
Agreed. But they're already in the business of healthcare and they get federal funding.
PeaceNikki
May 2015
#22
I agree 100%. The funding should end. I've always been against giving taxpayer's
Cleita
May 2015
#27
My fiancee's Gynecologist's office was bought out/absorbed by Mercy health, an...
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#18
We are lucky that we live in a largish metro-area with more than one health care system...
Humanist_Activist
May 2015
#39
In Seattle, the RCC has wormed joint operating agreements or ownership into 10 of the 11
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#49
Not dismissing it. Until I entered this thread, I didn't realize how pervasive the problem
Cleita
May 2015
#54
I don't know that hospital's name. I'll give you local hospitals to me.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#63
The catholic org lied about the Swedish takeover. Just liked it lied about I-1000 opposition.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#70
Are you claiming that someone saying SSM is a tool of the devil isn't bigoted?
Lordquinton
May 2015
#104
For now, we'll just have to discuss your dogged deflections for the RCC, I guess.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#115
Except of course that I have agreed and acknowledged that, for instance, Catholic PEOPLE poll
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#109
No retraction of the 'bigot' attack, no material content, smilie present.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#114
That details how the deal was made but it doesn't even hint at why Swedish agreed to it.
rug
May 2015
#69
It is a common business practice. Party A has money and desire to acquire, Party B likes money,
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#73
Since they sat at the same PR table and lied about whether services would change
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#75
Elements of the church have deliberately acquired that health care for a purpose.
AtheistCrusader
May 2015
#102
Your cold disinterest in how this impacts the reproductive lives of ALL Americans...
trotsky
May 2015
#119
"you can't force the Catholic Church to provide health care options"
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#125
Bullshit, your non-support of women's reproductive rights when it comes to the RCC speaks volumes
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#123
Straw man: "Do you think Catholic doctors should be forced to perform abortions?"
beam me up scottie
May 2015
#128