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Hospitals can't deny admitting privileges to abortion doctors, AG says

Plans by three Catholic hospital systems in Wisconsin to deny admitting privileges to doctors who perform abortions would violate federal law, Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen says. »Read Full Article

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  1. Love that last line on Mary Lazich's ignorance-way to paint yourselves into a corner, Republican legislators. Glad the hospitals will now have to grant admitting privileges-this was all about women's health after all, wasn't it?
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  2. The JB man final gets some brass.

    About time- you partisan and incompetent AG!
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  3. Do the hospitals care about women's health or not. Sounds like the Christian hospitals don't give a rip.
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  4. It is unclear whether Wisconsin lawmakers who enacted the new abortion law anticipated that it might place religiously affiliated hospitals in a quandary once abortion providers began seeking privileges.State Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), the bill's author, said she was not aware of the Church Amendments of the 1970s, after initially asking whether they were part of Obamacare.

    You would think- but maybe that's a stretch that Mary Lazwich would have checked the constitutionality of her pet law. Then again - maybe they want it all to be challenged.
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  5. Who would want a doctor who disregards their "Hippocratic Oath" so easily?
    "I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone." Is there anything more harmful than abortion? I don't think so.
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    • Please explain why the woman's life is less valuable than the fetus she is carrying? The Catholic Church refused to bury a child born deceased in their cemeteries well into the end of the 1900's because he/she had not taken their first breath and therefore were not fully human. How do they explain now all of a sudden they are full humans? Seems everything is relative and evolving depending on who you want to manipulate at any given time. Guess the kingdom of God truly is not of this earth.
    • I would think an abortion performed in some filthy back alley dump by some quack with NO MEDICAL DEGREE would be MUCH MORE HARMFUL than a safe legal abortion performed by a qualified and licensed medical professional ... since the means to abort a pregnancy EXIST (as they have for thousands or years) people WILL SEEK abortions whether they are legal or NOT (just like they did BEFORE Roe V Wade) ... the question is NOT whether there WILL BE abortions or NOT ... the question is WILL THOSE ABORTIONS BE as SAFE as medical science can make them? ... The US Supreme Court ruled that a woman has the RIGHT to HAVE as SAFE of an abortion that medical science can provide IF that is what she CHOSES to do ... legal or NOT, SAFE or NOT, women have ALWAYS CHOSE to HAVE abortions if that was what they wanted to do
    • A doctor perofrming an abortion is not harming anyone because a fetus isn't a person. (If it is, you're welcome to offer to gestate one for someone who doesn't want to be pregnant.) The doctor is required to consider the health of her patient, not the various bits of tissue which make up her patient. An abortion is no more harmful than removing an appendix or tonsil.
  6. Time for Hollen needs to go, constitution (Freedom of Religion) trumps an illegal Obama law. Please will a conservative run again this fake.
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  7. Does it get any funnier? You couldn’t make this stuff up. Vote republican, they’re a laugh a minute.
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  8. See, now this is the problem with finding solutions to problems that don't exist.
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  9. Now Van Hollen thinks hospitals must admit doctors that perform abortions based on federal law. What he's doing is playing a catch 22, on one hand the hospitals can't or won't use abortion as a denial but abortion clinics have extremely low complication rates meaning that abortion doctors don't need to send people.

    The next issue is the ambulatory mandate which I think will also been seen as an undue burden unless it's applied to all outpatient services. Lobbyists won't let that happen.
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  10. This IS a medical / scientific issue, not a nonsensical, ideological, evangelical opinion rant for the few and the minority to decide. Women must have the right to make decisions for themselves and have safe, healthy, accessible providers to deliver care. The fact that the Catholic church in all it's recent wisdom is trying to impart that they have some divine right to interject some scientific strength over the medical community and therefore enforce laws that would restrict women's rights is reprehensible. We in the industrialized world do not want to return to archaic back alley abortion treatments. Safe abortion treatments ARE necessary where they are necessary. On the same note, the politicians that think that we should cut all funding to Planned Parenthood are laughably ludicrous because Planned Parenthood does SO MUCH beyond abortion treatments. They are a HUGE part of the solution, and the opposition is a serious part of the problem. So long as Wheaton Franciscan, Columbia, etc. are being funded and allowed massive tax breaks for their services, we should be leaving religion out of this.
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