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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]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)115. For now, we'll just have to discuss your dogged deflections for the RCC, I guess.
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When the Catholic Church owns your doctor: The insidious new threat to affordable birth control [View all]
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