Fuck Catholic hospitals. They're intentionally hard to avoid, and the care is always fucked. I say this as someone who unfortunately had to get two surgeries in a Catholic hospital. This was right after they were caught not caring about the literally oozing and damaged beds in the labor and delivery unit.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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A lot of people know that Catholic hospitals won’t perform abortions, but fewer know how radical that policy is. Even if you set aside elective abortions, patients who have ectopic pregnancies (and whose lives are at risk) would be in danger if they went to a Catholic institution.
A normal hospital could give that patient a drug to induce an abortion... or just remove that fertilized egg through surgery. Not Catholic hospitals, though. They might make doctors remove a woman’s entire fallopian tube to prevent something fatal, reducing her ability to get pregnant in the future, even though it’s medically unnecessary, because that’s what their faith dictates.
What if a woman has a miscarriage? That’s already emotionally draining, but Catholic hospitals make things worse. Normal hospitals might induce an abortion to make sure the embryonic tissue is removed from a woman’s body to prevent infection. Not Catholic hospitals. They require doctors to wait until a woman is infected before providing treatment.
What about contraception? Catholic hospitals won’t dispense it. If a victim of sexual assault needs birth control immediately, and a Catholic hospital happens to be the one nearby, it may not help her. If there’s any chance the victim is already pregnant when the hospital sees her, that help is even less likely.
Catholic hospitals also won’t perform vasectomies on men because those would interfere with natural pregnancies in the future.
Nor will they help women who want to get pregnant by using a sperm donor.
They also won’t help couples use a surrogatemother to give birth to their biological child because that would also be seen as “gravely immoral.”
Catholic hospitals are equally awful at the other end of life. What if you’re an elderly person who is dying of a terminal disease, constantly in pain, and eager to end life on your own terms, peacefully, while you are able to make those kinds of decisions? Even in states where euthanasia, or death with dignity, is legal, too damn bad. You will just have to suffer. They will not assist you in those cases.
Got caught up in these types of decisions with my first pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Fuck the Catholic Church.
We really need a law prohibiting religious ownership of a medical institution from influencing or deciding what care is permitted
This reminds me or a minor, mostly friendly argument I had with my cousin one time about religion being a net negative for humanity.
Shit like this is why it's a net negative.
Finally some good fucking news
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This article misspells "afflicted".
Link goes to some comment section.
Noted and fixed. Thanks for the warning.
Now the post is just a photo?
Uphill battle 😅