Posted on 05/05/2020 6:31:19 PM PDT by Morgana
In 2019, a British judge ruled in favor of forcing a mentally disabled woman to have an abortion. In this egregious case, the woman was 22 weeks pregnant. Her mother had offered to raise and care for the child, saying an abortion violated her and her daughter’s beliefs. Nevertheless, the judged ruled to force the woman to abort against her will. Fortunately, the decision was later overruled.
Before the judge’s verdict was overturned, a woman identifying herself as a mental health professional and therapist tweeted in favor of the forced abortion:
Another Twitter user suggested that pro-lifers might avoid going to this therapist, and she said, “it’s ok, I’m not really interested in having anti-abortion bigots as clients thanks.”
This attitude from a health care worker is troubling. Mental health professionals are not supposed to screen their clients based on their political views. If a pro-life person has a mental illness or just needs a therapist to cope with stressors in their lives, they should not have to worry about being mistreated or denied care due to their beliefs. This is no different than another health professional, such as a doctor or surgeon, refusing to treat a pro-life person.
The rest of the conversation went as follows:
There was no further response.
Clearly, unless the therapist asks each potential patient “are you pro-life?” when she first meets them, a scenario like the above could easily happen. A pro-life person struggling with mental health issues doesn’t deserve to be mistreated or abandoned by a health care provider due to his or her commitment to protecting preborn babies.
Turning away a patient in need, or flat out abandoning one, is clearly wrong and unprofessional.
In many rural areas, there are a limited number of mental health professionals available. A patient’s insurance also limits the providers they can see. Turned away by one therapist, it may not be easy to find another.
Discrimination against pro-lifers in health care is unacceptable. Any pro-lifer who believes they have been denied health care due to their pro-life beliefs should file a complaint with the state Board of Health.
Good. Who needs to be treated by such ghouls! God forbid!
I would not want to see such a therapist. Probably would make mental health worse.
People need to make sure they find Christian ones. They do exist.
I think it’s OK because the mental health “therapist” is mental ill.
I am very well aware of the Indian cartel as I have been an IT professional since 1995.
How the heck is anyone going to get an appointment with all those Leftists cluttering the schedules with their mental health issues due to their cognitive dissonance?
Being pro life is not a “political view”. It is a humane and moral view.
This so called mental health professional is really saying she wouldn’t help humane and moral people.....because she is not humane and moral.
Again, for the umpteenth time, those who claim to care so much, actually just hate so much. The irony continues to elude their sick minds.
Bake the damn cake
I was thinking the same thing.
Who would want to be treated by someone who thinks chopping up a baby is great?
She’s too mentally ill to teat anybody.
The larger problem is this
Secular societies definitons of mental health will condemn and restrain people who are perfectly sane but because they are christians their beliefx will cause secular/state docs to declare them ill.
We need to make sure it doesnt happen, but if it does its a fight to the death.
That therapist should have his or her license revoked. If, and that’s a big if, the therapist in fact has a license.
One shouldn’t discount the possibility that this was trolling by a warehouse forklift operator with no connection to mental health. Usually, it’s reality vs. social media.
Abortion bigot is an interesting concept, though. I’ll be scratching my head over that one for a while.
The ghoulish therapist needs to be committed or needs to see a therapist.
She’s the opposite of what therapists are supposed to be.
Most Pro-Lifers have God and no need of godless “therapy”.
Hmm. I guess it’s possible. Just on the face of it, though, any mental health professional ought to know that pro-life beliefs aside, a woman who has had an abortion is likely to be afflicted with depression just from the sudden hormonal downshift of going from being pregnant to not pregnant in a few minutes. What an insensitive way to feel that you won’t treat a depressed woman! Yet they preach the sisterhood all day long.
My first job out of college was at a U.S. company. After five or six months my boss took me in a conference room and told me the company wanted me to move to another country.
Would you tell me to %#% off?
The funny thing is I desperately did not want to go to this other country, but everyone I knew said I would be crazy not to do it. My parents acted like it was the greatest thing to ever happen.
Eventually the return of Soviet psychiatry. Sluggish schizophrenia, anyone? Yuri Andropov is laughing in Hell.
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