Under pressure on abortion, Swedish backs new Planned Parenthood clinic

[brooklynite]

Source: Seattle Times

Swedish Medical Center, beset by mounting opposition to its decision to stop performing elective abortions if a pending alliance with a Catholic health system is approved, will help underwrite a Planned Parenthood center in the Nordstrom Tower adjacent to the hospital.

Swedish's plan to refer patients to the center, which will provide a full range of reproductive-health services, including elective abortion, has been in the works for several months and was expected to be announced next week.

On Friday, as women's rights groups and others began vocal protests about its decision to end elective abortions, Swedish decided to move up its announcement.

"Swedish is deeply committed to ensuring women have access to comprehensive care," said Dr. Jane Ulhir, Swedish's medical director, in a statement. "We chose Planned Parenthood because they are the experts in the efficient delivery of reproductive health care."

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016503475_swedish15m.html

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Either Swedish is providing abortion services for women who need them or it's not. If the Catholic Church is going to insist on banning abortions, having the Hospital simply outsource them to a place around them corner wouldn't seem to be acceptable, in which case, why move them at all?

[and-justice-for-all]

1. Sweden caving to religious ideology is very very bad...

and compley wrong.

[moobu2]

2. Swedish Medical Center is a hospital located in Seattle Washington

I think it was started by this guy from Sweden hence the name.

[bengalherder]

3. In my experience catholic influenced hospitals cannot even speak

of things pertaining to birth control en premise.

I gave birth in a catholic hospital. I could not talk to my doc about birth control (or my tubal, later) there. I had to wait to see her in her outside office.

I wonder how many women will be able to access alternatives when their own doctors are going to be unable to mention it while they are in the hospital there?

[LeftyMom]

5. How many women stick with riskier birth control because Catholic hospitals won't do tubals?

My mom intended to have a tubal when she had a c-section with my sister. Her doctor switched hospital affiliations to Mercy midway through the pregnancy, and since she had difficult pregnancies and early deliveries switching wasn't smart. Anyhow, long story short, no tubal, another decade of hormonal birth control (at which point she needed a hysterectomy for other reasons,) still no more babies. It steams me that a woman who had difficult pregnancies, early labor and surgical deliveries, who was at unusual risk from using hormonal birth control (due to a family history of unexplained blood clots and being a smoker) couldn't get a tubal ligation. Purely from a health perspective, she had no business having more children, and that was the safest way to make sure that happened.

I think if she'd wept and gnashed her teeth and complained about the umpteen babies she wasn't going to have it would have been approved on medical grounds. She's not Catholic, she doesn't know how to work the system. She should have asked one of my aunts- devout Catholics who all developed tragic medical complaints after their second or third kid.

[defendandprotect]

4. Catholic Church is too involved in our health care -- among other things!

[LeftyMom]

6. Is an outpatient clinic going to handle emergencies?

Hospitals don't generally do a lot of routine, early pregnancy elective abortions. They do OH SHIT YOU'RE BLEEDING TO DEATH abortions, we need to end this pregnancy before your blood pressure kills you abortions, I'm very sorry this very wanted and rather advanced pregnancy isn't doing to result in a live baby abortions, etc. Clinics aren't generally set up to do those, because they're riskier and need to happen in hospitals.

[midnight]

7. Karl Rove has a big influence on that Government..

The possibility that the Republican Rove might have hidden influence in Swedish and the United States law enforcement is inherently hard to prove because of the secrecy of proceedings. So, I refrained until now from writing about it for Connecticut Watchdog, especially because Rove himself has so far failed to respond to my invitation to comment. Instead, I recently published the relevant information as a political opinion column on the Huffington Post.

But the consumer stakes of potential WikiLeaks prosecutions are too important not to mention to this audience. In fact, underlying relationships between key figures in politics, law enforcement and the news media hold significant dangers for the public in restricting Net and web-based communications even if no improper action by Rove is ever established.

That’s particularly true if authorities use national security rationales to curtail Net access, as in the unprecedented and successful pressure by the U.S. government for Amazon.com, PayPal and others to cut off their services to WikiLeaks. Similarly, the Air Force forbade any of its employees from reading any part of the New York Times because it published redacted versions of some of the secret cables obtained by WikiLeaks.


Rove himself says on his Karl Rove and Company website that he has been advising Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. It’s well-known in Sweden how Rove has helped Reinfeldt lead the nation’s Moderate Party to election success over liberal competitors who previously dominated the nation’s leadership.http://www.swedishwire.com/opinion/8165-karl-rove-key-player-in-swedish-wikileaks-probe

[LeftyMom]

8. You didn't read the article, did you?

[uppityperson]

9. kick and rec, this is amazing. How could they do this? I am ashamed of them.

[uppityperson]

10. I meant provide healthcare according to a religion? I thought it/they were secular

shame on them for that. Not for trying to figure out a way to let women get healthcare but to making a Church dictate their services.