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The hospital may be religiously affiliated but it also receives federal funding. Furthermore, do we expect rape victims (or their loved ones), who according to their father are:
to logically and rationally ascertain that the hospital's doctors might have religious persuasions and therefore they should make the drive to another county, another state, wherever? Is that what we have come to?
And check out this example of compassion in action:
A Good Samaritan Hospital emergency room doctor refused to give a rape victim a morning-after pill because he said it was against his Mennonite religion.
Rebuffed by the doctor, the woman called her gynecologist, who wrote the prescription. Her local pharmacy told her it was out of the drug and referred her to a sister store in Reading.
The hospital may be religiously affiliated but it also receives federal funding. Furthermore, do we expect rape victims (or their loved ones), who according to their father are:
The woman who reported the rape was emotionally unable to speak to a reporter
to logically and rationally ascertain that the hospital's doctors might have religious persuasions and therefore they should make the drive to another county, another state, wherever? Is that what we have come to?
And check out this example of compassion in action:
The former medical director of the hospital said he sees nothing strange about asking a woman from eastern Lebanon County to drive to Reading for a drug.
"People drive to Reading to buy jeans. Even if that were the case, that you had to drive to Reading to get this [prescription], to me that does not rise to a compulsion that you have to pass laws that [doctors] have to do something," Dr. Joe Kearns said.