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Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpose of calculating damage awards.
In Iowa, court-ordered awards for noneconomic losses stemming from medical malpractice are capped at $250,000, except in cases that entail the “loss or impairment of mind or body.”
Attorneys for the CHI and MercyOne hospital are arguing the cap on damages still applies in cases where the “loss” is that of a fetus or unborn child.
CHI’s status as a nonprofit, tax-exempt entity is based on its stated mission of providing health services “in the spirit of the gospel.” The ethics guidelines it approved in 2018 state that the corporation is committed to “respect the sacredness of every human life from the moment of conception until death.”
Why do y’all have a problem with this? Y’all think it’s just a clump of cells. A parasite.
It’s hypocrisy in the name of saving a buck. Should we not want intellectual consistency from religious affiliates that seek to dictate the terms of our laws and our lives?
No! Everything is black and white and about which team I said I was on!
We’re pointing out the hypocrisy. Did you really not understand that? It’s ridiculously obvious. Or are you just being a contrarian?
This is some primo dumbassery right here. Delicious, and stereotypically conservative: obliquely combative, willfully ignorant, or bless-your-heart special. Maybe even a nice mashup of the three…
Hot damn, my guy. You remember all those anti-abortion laws where the basic reasoning is that “abortion is murder”? The rest of us do, and we insist that the Catholic church make consistent legal arguments. Many of us also think those fuckheads also have shitty views in general.