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MountainLaurel

(10,271 posts)
8. Yes, care may have been different
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:50 AM
Feb 2012

If the kid wasn't baked enough, she probably would have needed to go elsewhere to get a termination in order to start chemo.

When our nearest ER was at a Catholic hospital, Mr. Laurel had strict instructions to take me elsewhere in a crisis because I knew my health would not come first since I was a woman of childbearing age. As it happens, I also worked for the affiliated university -- no services that "were in opposition to Catholic doctrine" were covered -- no contraception, sterilization, IVF, or selective termination. Now the university has one plan of three available that will cover contraception; however, it's pretty crappy about everything else.

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