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Dear Abby headlined "Catholic hospitals value mother and child" in last Wednesday's Reno Gazette-Journal.
In November, Dear
Abby writer Jeanne Phillips published a column that brought a strong
rebuttal from the Catholic Health Association which ran last week.
Sister Carol Keehan, President and CEO, wrote that Phillips "asserted
that it is Catholic policy to save the life of the baby over the mother in obstetrical
emergencies. This inaccurate statement has been replayed even in movies in spite
of repeated denials by Catholic hospitals and the professionals who render care
in them," Sister Keehan stated.
I was taught otherwise. Father Sergio Negro was my Catholic high school's
senior class sex advisor.
One day in 1963, one of my classmates asked Father Negro about the church position
regarding exactly the above situation.
Jaws dropped throughout the room when he stated that the mother should always
be sacrificed if only one could be saved.
The reason: The mother has lived a life and had her chance to earn a place in
heaven and see God, where the baby has not.
This shocked a roomful of young men all of whom were in love with beautiful
young women or wanted to be.
The Catholic hierarchy in these parts practiced medicine through at least the
1970s. A Reno native of my long acquaintance is the mother of many children.
For her later pregnancies, she requested and made advance partial payment for
tubal ligation surgery after delivery.
Additional pregnancy
put her life in serious danger. On several occasions in the mid-1970s, doctors
refused to perform the birth control procedure under orders from local Catholic
clergy.
This would have been outrageous but marginally understandable at St. Mary's,
which was then owned and managed by the Dominican Sisters. However, my friend
birthed all her children at Washoe Medical Center (now Renown),
which was then a county-owned hospital.
"I still don't know how the priests and bishop found out I had requested
tubal ligation," she told me last week. Her money was never refunded.
Seeing the danger, a female doctor finally acted.
"I don't care if the pope walked in," the doctor said. She left Nevada
soon thereafter.
While Sister Keehan may have stated what's on paper, in practice things remain
the same in some places.
Last Dec. 28, the American
Civil Liberties Union sued Mercy Hospital in Redding, California, for refusing
to perform a ligation.
According to the suit, Dr. Samuel Van Kirk, "estimates that he has
had at least 50 patients in the last eight years for whom he has sought but
been denied authorization to perform immediate postpartum tubal ligation."
The ACLU sued Dignity Health, the Catholic hospital network to which Mercy belongs.
Dignity owned St. Mary's before Prime
Healthcare acquired it in 2012.
Hope you and yours enjoyed Happy
High Holly Days.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)
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BARBWIRE WEB EXTRAS... TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY: FEEL UP YOUR FIRE METER. The Reno Gazette-Journal did big spreads on three consecutive Sundays (Sept. 14, Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, 2014) on NV Energy smart meter fires. Welcome aboard. Barbwire readers were two years ahead on the fire meter issue. (Touch a Smart Meter, Go to Jail — 11 October 2012
FIRE METER UPDATES: THE NEVADA FIRE MARSHALL'S INVESTIGATION concluded "don't worry,
be happy." I'm still worried and will continue fondling NVE's precious equipment —> If your smart meter feels very hot, not just from sunshine, call 911.
In its Sunday 21 Dec. 2014 front page headline major story, the Reno Gazette-Journal published results of the NVEnergy-commissioned "don't worry, be happy" echo study. On 1-27-2015, the RGJ published an analysis based on veteran reporter Anjeanette Damon's review of more than 1,000 pages of documents. Barbwire bottom line: NVE handles this like auto manufacturers handle defects —> It's cheaper to pay legal settlements after people are injured or killed than to fix the problem.
Don'tcha worry 'bout a thing! If you can't trust your power company, whom can you trust?
DIDN'T THEY MAKE A MOVIE CALLED "THE INCREDIBLES"? On 2-6-2015, the RGJ reported that the Public Utilities Commission has ordered NVE to hire an independent laboratory to review the material. UPDATE: The report said all is well. I still recommend feeling up your fire meter on a regular basis.
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