- Friendly Bob Adams - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 8:11 am:
It’s run of the mill February weather here in beautiful DuPage County this week. Highs in the twenties, maybe a touch of snow. It’s a relief not to have that claustrophobic feeling of being shut in by horrendous winter weather.
The Chicago Tribune makes it comforting…if it is a loss….or infuriating…if it is a win…because their deadline is so early they can’t get the big game score into the paper. here’s hoping that unlike too many times in the past their sports pages get facts straight tomorrow.
Quote: Another OSF employee whom we shall call “Ms. X” as she wishes to remain anonymous, states bluntly that even when a pregnancy would threaten a woman’s life, contraception is strictly forbidden by OSF. “Heart failure does not buy you contraception,” she says. “If mom’s life is in danger, can we tie their tubes? Like if she got pregnant again, it would be fatal? They said no.”
They have scans of pamphlets OSF provides when patients ask for birth control or other “forbidden” care.
Any body else notice that a U of I grad was the latest to become a millionaire by winning in the desert Sunday. Good work Mike Small. Congrats Thomas Detry.
@SuburbanMom - This is terrible but are these practices new? I can remember my pro-choice mother telling me 25 years ago that the reason our family got medical care through the non-OSF health system was because of how OSF treats pregnant women as expendable in any medical emergency due to Catholic medicine requirements.
“… contraception is strictly forbidden by … .” It could get worse. To avoid contraception in Ireland they did things to women right out of the Mengele playbook.
The general OSF approach to birth control isn’t very new. But its aggressive movement to monopolize rural medical care and its creation of multiple maternity deserts because many ob/gyns refuse to practice under OSF’s standard of care is.
There are counties where state employees’ only health care option is OSF, so that’s all that’s covered. That bugs me too, that a state employee is force to access religious care.
My wife and I were dismayed to learn OSF was acquiring our hospital. We enjoyed Dr. Doyle and were sad to see her driven out by OSF’s policies. Thanks for sharing the article Suburban Mom.
- Friendly Bob Adams - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 8:11 am:
It’s run of the mill February weather here in beautiful DuPage County this week. Highs in the twenties, maybe a touch of snow. It’s a relief not to have that claustrophobic feeling of being shut in by horrendous winter weather.
- Amalia - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 8:45 am:
The Chicago Tribune makes it comforting…if it is a loss….or infuriating…if it is a win…because their deadline is so early they can’t get the big game score into the paper. here’s hoping that unlike too many times in the past their sports pages get facts straight tomorrow.
- DS - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 9:59 am:
The Shannon Rovers bagpipe band marched in the Chinatown lunar new year parade. Made me laugh.
- Grimlock - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 10:32 am:
Watching the forecast for Wednesday, already bought groceries for the week luckily.
- Suburban Mom - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 10:40 am:
This is making the rounds in Illinois feminist spaces: https://www.obgynpower.com/blog/how-the-catholic-ethical-directives-are-tearing-apart-rural-womens-health-q4yvF
Quote: Another OSF employee whom we shall call “Ms. X” as she wishes to remain anonymous, states bluntly that even when a pregnancy would threaten a woman’s life, contraception is strictly forbidden by OSF. “Heart failure does not buy you contraception,” she says. “If mom’s life is in danger, can we tie their tubes? Like if she got pregnant again, it would be fatal? They said no.”
They have scans of pamphlets OSF provides when patients ask for birth control or other “forbidden” care.
- Annonin' - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 11:36 am:
Any body else notice that a U of I grad was the latest to become a millionaire by winning in the desert Sunday. Good work Mike Small. Congrats Thomas Detry.
- hisgirlfriday - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 12:01 pm:
@SuburbanMom - This is terrible but are these practices new? I can remember my pro-choice mother telling me 25 years ago that the reason our family got medical care through the non-OSF health system was because of how OSF treats pregnant women as expendable in any medical emergency due to Catholic medicine requirements.
- Anyone Remember - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 12:27 pm:
“… contraception is strictly forbidden by … .” It could get worse. To avoid contraception in Ireland they did things to women right out of the Mengele playbook.
- Suburban Mom - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 1:42 pm:
The general OSF approach to birth control isn’t very new. But its aggressive movement to monopolize rural medical care and its creation of multiple maternity deserts because many ob/gyns refuse to practice under OSF’s standard of care is.
There are counties where state employees’ only health care option is OSF, so that’s all that’s covered. That bugs me too, that a state employee is force to access religious care.
- Dixon Man - Monday, Feb 10, 25 @ 4:06 pm:
My wife and I were dismayed to learn OSF was acquiring our hospital. We enjoyed Dr. Doyle and were sad to see her driven out by OSF’s policies. Thanks for sharing the article Suburban Mom.