Reply #26: And this would be the reason for darkspouse's standing orders on hospital care.

[darkstar3]

No Catholic hospitals are allowed (among other things), specifically because they treat young women differently than other patients. They treat you constantly as though your are pregnant, and change your medical care without your consent for such purposes. Certain pain killers, diagnostic procedures, effective medications and antibiotics, all are avoided without telling the patient that the options were ever available, because if you're a woman of a certain age, then you're too dumb to know if you could be pregnant.

I guess they don't really know about birth control, after all, but then that doesn't exactly make them good doctors...