Originally Posted by
DVPGSR
As far as hopitals go, if they are a privately funded religous hospital then by all means they have that right to decide not to perform abortions or provide the morning after pill. Any time I have been in an ambulance I have been given the option of what hospital to go to, the religious or the state/private funded secular hospital. People have a choice on where they go and if it is life or death it should not make a difference. I know abortion can be life or death sometimes when there is a complication in the pregnancy and in those instances I think the abortion is allowed to save the life of the mother.
Angela...or whatever name I made up before, is knocked out and the MT decides to take you to the closest hospitol...who's choice is it? Time is ticking and there is not enough time to contact an adult or move you to another location.
IMO, a hospital should be aware of this scenario and have an option that is non-partisan...wether it's appointing a non-partisan surgeon, having a "non-blessed" wing of the hospital...something....I don't care.
And unless you are liberatarian, you know and better agree that even a privately funded hospital holds and needingly holds accords with the federal and state laws.