Was behind a local man, queued up for a concession stand at the Greenville Zoo in South Carolina.
Somebody calls him, seemingly to ask where he was. He said the food line. He had to repeat himself several times before clarifying where he was.
Apparently that person thought he was saying “Food Lion”, a regional grocery chain. The accent makes the words sound almost the same.
He’s not he-who-shall-not-be-named. Talking about him won’t make him more powerful.
This is really it. If a doctor has a moral objection to abortions, maybe gynecology wasn’t the right discipline for them to practice. That’s on them, and they should be upfront about it being a personal moral objection and for them to seek another doctor.
I’m fine with that compromise, because I suspect those doctors are and will remain the minority, and everyone’s rights are preserved.
But if a chief of medicine, or worse, a board of non-doctors, says their hospital won’t perform abortions on religious grounds? Then fuck you, you’re not a hospital, you are a faith-based healing center, and need to be treated as such.
Hospital administration needs to be science-based care and check their religion at the door, especially if they aren’t directly practicing. They shouldn’t be making decisions that directly effect people that they are indirectly related to based upon someone’s interpretation of an old anthology of fables.
History is written by the winners…who are chosen by the press.