Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has a YouTube channel where they frequently post clips from the show and sometimes they’ll even put up “extras.” Yesterday they put up four extended interviews with women who worked at or have been patients at Catholic hospitals. The stories they tell are distressing at best and downright infuriating and tragic at worst. In all four cases the women give examples of their experiences with what is diplomatically called the “limited” or “restrictive” services that can be provided to women at these facilities.
An extended interview with Dr. Rupa Natarajan who worked as an OB-GYN at a Catholic hospital explains how medically limiting the directives can be at so-called “pro-life” facilities.
Jennafer Norris dealt with a surprise pregnancy denied an emergency C-section.
Mindy Swank was pregnant with her second child and received terrible news: the fetus was suffering from developmental issues and was unlikely to survive.
Melanie Jones’s IUD became dislodged and spent two weeks bleeding and in pain because of religious idiocy.
Full Frontal is a very funny show but there is room for serious discussion and some of that discussion is this: if you can listen to these stories and say that this is all right with you, then your religion is no good.