Posted on 01/14/2010 8:20:01 PM PST by RIRed
Martha Coakley continues to step in it. Today’s gaffe occurred after Princess was asked whether health care legislation should include a conscience clause to protect health care workers opposed to abortion on religious grounds. Coakley responded that “[y]ou can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in an emergency room.”
So too bad so sad to all you practicing Catholics out there with dreams of working in the health care profession. Princess says you should seek employment elsewhere.
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She didn’t say she would ban practicing Catholics.
She gives a great foot in the mouth quote and some idiot has to spin it worse than it is and give her the wiggle room needed to say “That is not what I said!”
Let her words speak for themselves and she will drown in them.
That’ll go over well in Boston.
what does abortion have to do with working in an ER?
I would love for her to try and say “that’s not what I said.” With her track record of gaffes, she probably will.
Coakley makes Joe Biden sound like John Gielgud.
She didn’t say she would ban them. She said “maybe they shouldn’t work there”. Where do you see her “banning” anyone in that statement?
RU-486
This is shameful behavior for both the right and left wings.
The writer is trying to sensationalize the quote which is more than bad enough. I say let it play as it is.
I worked in several emergency rooms around the country as an RN. Never have I seen an abortion performed in an emergency room. That may be the case today, but I never saw it.
It was a response to a question about the lack of a conscience clause in the pending health care legislation. They would be banned if they insisted on continuing to practice their faith.
The question was an oblique reference to dispensing RU-486
Maybe she meant “medical facilities” but said ER?
What the consequences would be if the bill passed is vastly different than trying to twist her quote into saying that she would ban practicing Catholics from working in Emergancy Rooms.
The quote will kill her word for word, the obsessive need to twist and spin to make it worse is a disease amongst many bloggers and commentators.
Let her words be her words and they leave her no where to hide.
Liberalism is such a nasty cancer.
Yes it is and yes it will. But there is no misquote there.
Here is a National Review article by Kathryn Jean Lopez explaining the contoversy.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzc2ZGZiNzIzM2YwMjllODFiNDM0OGZiNWY3ZDhmYTE=
Here is the actual Coakley quote in a streaming audio radio interview. Start listeing about 9 minutes in.
http://wbsm.com/FlashPlayer/default.asp?SPID=19654&nID=1
"You can have religious freedom. You probably shouldn't work in the emergency room."
Which by itself doesn't make much sense, though she does try to explain herself.
She didn't say that "she would ban" practicing Catholics from working in the emergency room.
She is a genuinely terrible candidate, there is no need to twist her words to make her seem worse.
maybe an admin mod could pull this thread
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