[Tuttyd]

Appalling treatment of mothers-to-be at maternity units | Mail Online

I think it is far too early to make comparisons when it comes to health care. Obama care may well become a single payer system. If it did the British system would be very different to your system. Both may well be single payer, but in name only.

[talaniman]

It's a works in progress Tut, and any system can be improved on. If I read the article correctly, it's a lack of trained help that is the main contributor to the problem, driven by administrative decisions no doubt having to do with budgets and costs. A global concern in all the labor intensive industries.

[paraclete]

the problem here is costs in medical provision won't be curbed while free enterprise rules the system. Medicine isn't supposed to be about money making, but an MD is a license to print money. Even in systems where there is strong regulation they do well. In my own country they are now saying a surplus of doctors drives costs up, guess we will have to send all those imports home

[speechlesstx]

All I can say is we have two hospitals next door to each other, a for profit hospital and a non profit effort between Baptists and Catholics. My daughter has been in the corporate hospital since Friday, my wife just came home from the non profit hospital yesterday. The medical care is comparable I think, but the total care my wife received is miles above my daughter's care. From the kid that brought her meals to the nurses, techs, coordinators and the sweet girl that cleaned her room everyone was without fail respectful, courteous, professional, outstanding. Not a person that came in her room left without asking if there was anything they could do for her. Five star care, I don't want to screw that up.

[speechlesstx]

Apparently the "Catholic" Supreme Court is waging the war on women according to one obviously bigoted and clueless columnist.

The Catholic Supreme Court’s War on Women - Jamie Stiehm (usnews.com)

Et tu, Justice Sonia Sotomayor? Really, we can't trust you on women's health and human rights? The lady from the Bronx just dropped the ball on American women and girls as surely as she did the sparkling ball at midnight on New Year's Eve in Times Square. Or maybe she's just a good Catholic girl.

The Supreme Court is now best understood as the Extreme Court. One big reason why is that six out of nine Justices are Catholic. Let's be forthright about that. (The other three are Jewish.) Sotomayor, appointed by President Obama, is a Catholic who put her religion ahead of her jurisprudence. What a surprise, but that is no small thing.

In a stay order applying to an appeal by a Colorado nunnery, the Little Sisters of the Poor, Justice Sotomayor undermined the new Affordable Care Act's sensible policy on contraception. She blocked the most simple of rules – lenient rules – that required the Little Sisters to affirm their religious beliefs against making contraception available to its members. They objected to filling out a one-page form. What could be easier than nuns claiming they don't believe in contraception?

I don't know, what could be easier than not imposing your beliefs on nuns in violation of a very clear first amendment?

Sotomayor's blow brings us to confront an uncomfortable reality. More than WASPS, Methodists, Jews, Quakers or Baptists, Catholics often try to impose their beliefs on you, me, public discourse and institutions. Especially if "you" are female. This is not true of all Catholics – just look at House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. But right now, the climate is so cold when it comes to defending our settled legal ground that Sotomayor's stay is tantamount to selling out the sisterhood. And sisterhood is not as powerful as it used to be, ladies.

Ok little miss bigot, first of all it was just a temporary stay. Second, do you not see the irony in whining about someone allegedly imposing their beliefs on you while demanding others walk in lockstep with you? Not all women want anything to do with your "sisterhood", quite a few are smart enough to be independent and think for themselves. Now, go back in the rat hole you climbed out of and let the nuns exercise their rights. Nuns are women, too, or is that fact to obvious for clueless wenches like you?

[NeedKarma]

Now, go back in the rat hole you climbed out of and let the nuns exercise their rights. Nuns are women, too, or is that fact to obvious for clueless wenches like you?

This quote is an example of how many of us view catholics - mean-spirited and not following their teachings.

[paraclete]

You are personalising the debate Karma and being equally mean spirited

[speechlesstx]

Nk, I'm not Catholic. But feel free to show me the same kind of bigoted vitriol from the nuns as this wench and then we can talk.

[paraclete]

Karma confuses individual opinions for the opinions of a group or organisation. As an athiest he thinks all Christians think alike and can therefore be tarred with the one brush. He is just doing a little God bating

[speechlesstx]

He apparently believes as she does that is ok to bash Catholics and Jews and shut them out of political and public life. Just insert the words blacks or gays in her column for Catholics and Jews and see how the attitude changes all around.

[talaniman]

I'll remember that when you go on your anti liberal tirade and play the victim card. I guess everybody hates something or somebody.

[speechlesstx]

Ok, I believe in free speech, not hypocrisy and bigotry. You think it would have been different had she said such things about blacks and gays? Or are you like her think it's fine to bash Catholics and Jews, particularly Catholic women in of all things an ignorant rant about the "sisterhood?" Nuns are women, too, and it’s the ultimate hypocrisy to demand they walk in lockstep while pretending to defend a woman's right to make their own choices but I fully expect that irony to be lost on you.

[talaniman]

It's not irony, just a nut expressing themselves. You ignore yours, I ignore mine.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” .” —C.S. Lewis

Right?

[speechlesstx]

Come now, you think the nuns have no complaint either.

[talaniman]

They have complaints, and they are having their day in court.

[speechlesstx]

War on women, Democrat style...

War on Women: Massachusetts Democrat Heading to Jail for Choking and Punching Woman Who Refused Sex

Posted by Jammie on Jan 15, 2014 at 1:34 pm


Don’t worry, Democrats, he’ll be out of jail in time for the next election cycle.

State Representative Carlos Henriquez was sentenced to serve six months in Middlesex County House of Correction today after he was convicted of charges that he choked and punched an Arlington woman he was dating in July 2012.

A Cambridge District Court jury convicted Henriquez on two assault and battery charges, but acquitted Henriquez, a Dorchester Democrat, of a third assault and battery charge, one count of intimidation of a witness, and one count of larceny under $250.

The victim, Katherine Gonzalves, testified about the events that unfolded on July 8, 2012, and underwent a rigorous cross-examination by Henriquez’s defense attorney, Stephanie Soriano-Mills.

Following the verdict, Judge Michele Hogan expressed concern that Henriquez was not accepting responsibility for the actions the jury convicted him of. Speaking from the bench, she also told him that he should have ended his interactions with Gonzalves early that morning when she told him she was not interested in having intimate relations.

“When a woman tells you she doesn’t want to have sex, she doesn’t want to have sex,’’ Hogan said, adding that she was “very concerned that you’re not remorseful.’’

Why would he be remorseful for basically getting a wrist slap? Oh, and not that anyone in the media will mention it, but his mother is an Obama appointee.

Yeah, yeah I know, he's just one guy, after the last guy, and the guy before that...

Meanwhile, the regime talks the talk but still doesn't walk the walk.

Men still make a lot more than women in Obama's White House | The Daily Caller

[paraclete]

Then it surely was originated, perpetrated and perpetuated by women

Exposed: the treachery of hairy women - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[speechlesstx]

I guess a Kermit Gosnell wasn't enough for Philadelphia's Planned Parenthood to make some changes to protect...minors.

The Pro-Life Action League has uncovered some disturbing information in Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Department of Health posted inspection reports recently, which the Pro-Life Action League then reviewed. What they found was not only despicable and disgusting, but also criminal.

On August 29, 2013 Department of Health inspectors conducted an annual registration survey [PDF] of Planned Parenthood's Locust Street Health Center, during which they reviewed the facility's policy related to external reporting to appropriate agencies as related to The Pennsylvania Crimes Code and the Child Protective Service Law.

The Planned Parenthood Locust Street Health Center's policy, updated December 2012, stated:

Statutory sexual assault (“statutory rape”) is sexual intercourse when one person is under the age of 16 and the other is 4 or more years older. It is a crime, however it is NOT a mandated reportable incident.

This is, of course, false. And the Pennsylvania Department of Health inspectors found that for six of the girls seen at Planned Parenthood under the age of 16, no one at Planned Parenthood had any documentation proving that they had verified the age of the person who had sexual intercourse with the girls.

But it only gets worse:

Of these six girls, two were age 14, and four were age 13.
… Two of the 13-year old girls were known to have had sex before the age of 13. One reported her first sexual intercourse at age 11. Another reported her first sexual intercourse at age 12. It was in their medical records. Even Planned Parenthood's own policy acknowledged that sex with a child under age 13 is always, by definition, rape.

Under Pennsylvania law, a child under 13 cannot give consent. These incidents of child sexual abuse should have been reported by Planned Parenthood employees, but they were not.

This is an ongoing problem at Planned Parenthood, and it should be shouted from the rooftops until all Americans know that this is the “health care” that our daughters get at Planned Parenthood. Their counselors do not care if someone is a victim of rape or sex trafficking. They do not care if the abortion is coerced. What matters is the dollars that the girl brings in — as long as the money is flowing, Planned Parenthood will look the other.

Yes it is an ongoing problem with PP, they've been subverting parental authority for decades and more importantly breaking the law in looking the other way when they should be reporting rape. How can any of you support a group that looks the other way when little girls are molested? There's not only your war on women, but a war on our children. This has nothing to do with "choice" or "health care," this is an atrocity.

[excon]

Hello again,

Mike Huckabee said that if only women could control their LIBIDO, they wouldn't NEED birth control. Rush Limprod agrees, if they weren't such SLUTS, everything would be cool...

Bwa, ha ha ha ha.

excon

[tomder55]

best to thin the herd from the likes of the Huckster early in the process before he pollutes the whole process like he did in 2008 .