Posted on 06/22/2007 3:10:11 PM PDT by flixxx
Lori Boyer couldn't stop trembling as she sat on the examining table, hugging her hospital gown around her. Her mind was reeling. She'd been raped hours earlier by a man she knew — a man who had assured Boyer, 35, that he only wanted to hang out at his place and talk. Instead, he had thrown her onto his bed and assaulted her. "I'm done with you," he'd tonelessly told her afterward. Boyer had grabbed her clothes and dashed for her car in the freezing predawn darkness. Yet she'd had the clarity to drive straight to the nearest emergency room — Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pennsylvania — to ask for a rape kit and talk to a sexual assault counselor. Bruised and in pain, she grimaced through the pelvic exam. Now, as Boyer watched Martin Gish, M.D., jot some final notes into her chart, she thought of something the rape counselor had mentioned earlier.
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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/356/6/593?ijkey=0915929f4fe3da8b6ebbf5b92eae974d5270a890&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha
Complicated topic.
It’s all the fault of those wicked Catholic hospitals and doctors who don’t believe in killing babies.
Typical MSNBC perspective.
This is a Catholic/Christian bash job by Planned Parenthood... and it makes me very skeptical of its authenticity. Most Dr.’s ...especially in the ER would refer her to someone else if he didn’t feel comfortable writing a script. She could have also asked a nurse’s assistance if she felt he was being abusive.
all she needed to do is take 4 birth control pills wait about 12 hours and take 4 more (depends on the pills)
I call Bullsh#t on the whole article. First of all a nurse especially trained for rape exams usually would do most of the exam now and the rape kit filled out.
there are resources out the a$$ to get post rape contraception.
This is a typical Christian bash... these libs would freak if they knew what the Muzzies have in store for women that get raped....since they are so much more in touch than bad old Christians.
The only thing this article failed to do was to state "Then the doctor prayed over my body, with laying on of the hands. He spoke in tongues and offered to meet me at a Christian singles group the next day."
These guys are so full of cr#p that you'd think that the editor would want proof of the authenticity of the so called story.
The NEJM started to fall apart about 20 years ago and can be relied on to "scientifically" back up liberal causes.... environmental cr#p, circumcision cr@p, socialized medical care cr@p, unionizing doctors cr#p, etc, etc....just like the AMA.
ping
What’s very peculiar is the author’s attitude that a doctor having a moral or ethical standard he holds himself to, is a “judgment” or “condemnation” of the patient. Liberals are incapable of separating fact from (their) emotions.
Their other misconception is that the doctor is there to do whatever you want/tell him to do.
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So, she is forced to do something against her moral code which entitles her to force the next man - a doctor who is trying to help her - to force him to do something against his moral code.
The only innocent here is the doctor.
As in should they be able to refuse to fibrillate someone, or perform an appendectomy?
Without referencing a reported case, this story is only a hypothetical. A one-sided anecdote at best, or a lie just as likely.
MSNBC’s “Sabrina Rubin Erdely” presents a very unusual background to the reader as not only plausible, but unquestionable fact. She treats the story as both common and understandable - to be brutally raped without motive.
It is likely that key facts have been omitted from the victim’s story in order to evoke the highest emotions for her. One may feel slightly different to learn, if perhaps, she and her attacker were actually using heroin at the time.
I’m just speculating, but if Sabrina Erdely can publish demagogic stories without evidence, then it is perfectly right to question them.
I know it isn’t a perfect analogy, but what if I went to a vegetarian restaurant and asked for a hamburger and they refused to serve me... something about not having any hamburger in stock. Is the mere fact that the restaurant operator doesn’t believe in eating meat sufficient excuse to serve a perfectly lawful meal? Go to a restaurant that serves meat, you say? Interesting suggestion. Any application to the issue at hand?
Depends. Will the patient need a transfusion during the surgery?
They’ve decided that medical care is a Constitutional RIGHT. Remember, Hillary-care will force doctors to specialize in a field selected by the government, plus doctors will be forced to perform abortions during training.
Imagine if all doctors have Hillary’s moral standards!
There’s quite a difference between prescribing medically unnecessary drugs and performing life-saving procedures.
She argues he refused to treat her, which is incorrect.
Get real. You talk like you think every female is born knowing about the proper dosage of regular birth control pills to effect emergency contraception or even has an existing prescription for birth control to do what you suggested. And believe me, in Pennsylvania it takes almost 10 months to get an appointment with an OB/GYN. Many have been driven out of practice or out of the state by insane malpractice insurance rates.
I’d give this story the benefit of the doubt on the birth control part, but not the comments about abortion.
MSNBC: They are all baddy, baddy Christians.
We are in for it, folks.
This smells like propaganda.
Here’s one for you:
Germany Forcing Unemployed Women into Legalized Prostitution
BERLIN, January 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - News agencies around the world are carrying the story of a young German woman, a qualified information technologist, who has been told that she faces suspension of her government relief benefits if she refuses to take a ‘job’ as a prostitute in a Berlin brothel. (snip)
As the Fonz would say, “Exactamundo!”
No one was denied care. The patient also had the right to request another doctor see her in the e.r.
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