This is obviously a satirical take on an issue, but she does make some decent points. Catholic hospitals are growing in number and in 2011, one in six patients were cared for in a catholic hospital. While catholic hospitals do a lot of good, problems arise when the individual healthcare conflicts with their religious beliefs. If a hospital is bought by a catholic facility, the doctors must adhere to the rules of the religion. This includes denying women an abortion even if her life is in danger.
There were multiple incidents where doctors went against the conservative philosophies and performed the abortion anyway and the people involved were punished by losing their job and/or being ecommunicated by the church. This is one of the more repressive issues i’ve come across. We made medical advances that can save lives and certain hospitals won’t even give women the option to make that decision for themselves.
The easy answer is to just go to a hospital that isn’t run by Catholics, right? Well many Americans don’t have access to anything else and this can be deadly in some cases. toward the end of the video, she refers to these advancements in medical technology as miracles and I don’t think I can argue that.