On NBC I found this article that I thought was very thought provoking and further proved why feminism has a future. This article deals particularly with a law-suit of a patient and a Catholic hospital. The patient had a miscarriage 18 weeks into her pregnancy, yet when she went to the only hospital in her county (a Catholic hospital) she was denied efficient treatment based on religious beliefs - so the law-suit argues. Since Catholics generally do not believe in abortion (even if the pregnancy is not viable and the mother's health is at risk) the patient states she was told to go home and never properly informed of what was happening to her body and never told of the severely dangerous situation she was in. Eventually after returning to the hospital a number of times the fetus was born unresponsive in an intensive labor that nearly killed the mother.
Whether this case proves to be true and that the hospital knowingly denied treatment based on religious beliefs or if the claims of this article are false, I believe this article represents how feminism does have a future. No women, should ever feel they are being denied the rights to their own body or feel unsupported by public (this was a community hospital) institutions that sole purpose is to "serve the better good of the community". This is unacceptable.
As we have discussed in class, it is the duty of feminist (or so I believe it to be the duty of feminist) to go out among society and example to others what feminism truly is and how feminism relates to all types of situations - just as the situation above. It is stories like this that really show how truly relevant feminism still is. If it was a man in pain would they have helped more quickly? If it was a hospital that treated all people and beliefs equally would this have happened? Is it okay for medical to become political? Does anyone have the rights over someone else's body?
This are the questions that I am left with by this article. I would think that nearly all of us could easily answer these questions as each of their answers are support of feminism. Women and men, feminist of all types, are still fighting for reproductive rights, gender roles, racism, and still yearning for equality.
This was an interesting article and I believe it represents how feminism is still essential today and tomorrow. .
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/catholic-hospitals-religious-rules-led-negligent-care-miscarriage-aclu-says-2D11674429
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND. Because of certain restrictions that are meant to prevent abortions (either state or church enforced) women can't have procedures that aren't even related to abortions! This is about women's health and women being able to have full rights over their own bodies.
ReplyDeleteThis makes absolutely no sense to me... If they were following some type of pro-life policy, I still don't see the logic behind not removing the already miscarried child and leaving the life of the mother in danger. This very well could have killed her, and she had every right to know what her condition was and all of the possible solutions to it.
ReplyDeleteThis infuriates me as a person who wants to pursue the medical field because a patient should never be denied medical attention, especially in a life endangering situations like miscarriages. If this is a real incident then she definitely has claims for medical misconduct.
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