Continuing on a perplexing theme

In the comments of my recent post about personal ethics and health care workers, DD said...

Unfortunately, this is all perpetuated by privately funded and owned corps. For example, just in my little town when there were 2 hospitals, if you wanted a tubal after giving birth, you could not go to Hospital A as they were owned by the Catholics, who of course don't believe in birth control.

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I've been thinking about the hospital thing and religion. It made me pause; DD is right, but it isn't the whole picture. Catholic hospitals are one situation that have always been that way, selective about what care they provide. It is pretty clear to anybody that one isn't going to receive birth control from a Catholic hospital; there are probably other restrictions, too. A patient is potentially going to encounter rather prudish thought processes, but the hospital is relatively clear about their intent merely by their affiliation and reputation. That, if nothing else, is fair.

The sneakiness of the Right is that they don't have a big "I'm of the mentality of a Catholic hospital" sign across their forehead. It is clandestine. One doesn't go into a pharmacy expecting to be balked by a pharmacist, adding insult to injury in the nut roll of trying to find another pharmacist or pharmacy. If they advertised "We are a Christian pharmacy" or "We only cart heterosexual Christians in our ambulance service," it would be fair and the rest of us would know who to avoid. And those who prefer such could.

The frustrating and alarming thing is that, as it stands outside the world of a Catholic hospital, we don't know who to avoid until it is potentially too late.

Warning labels! We should hook up these legislators in 18 of our states with the Surgeon General and the FDA to cook up some appropriate warning labels.

Caution! Contains religious fanaticism. Avoid if on atheist diet.

Warning! Religion can cause mushiness of the brain.

Beware pregnant women! With the Right, once pregnant, always pregnant.

Thanks, Surgeon General and FDA. I feel much better now.