There's a hard-core group of people who will lie and lie, and smile while they lie, talking about Planned Parenthood selling precious (white) babies' tissues and organs. A lot of them insist they're the only true version of Christianity (the psychotics in charge of Catholic Radio). And one of them has just given the green light to a cancer patient to stop getting treatment from her doctor for the unspeakable sin of (gasp!) supporting Planned Parenthood.
Quickie rage-rant under the big orange IUD.
At lunch today I listened to part of Catholic Radio - just in time to hear one of the female Quislings who do the dirty work for so much of patriarchal Catholic abuse the same way Fox uses black and female spokespeople to refute their own racism and misogyny. Apparently this woman had been Jewish but got tired of even that much autonomy, so she converted to Catholicism and joined a convent. So she's a converted-Catholic, which means she's more Catholic than the Pope.
One of her callers was a quiet, timid-sounding, frail-sounding woman who apparently was mid-treatment for cancer. But she was morally compromised because she found out her doctor supports Planned Parenthood.
And oh, the soothing, understanding, TENDER tone the Quisling used to sympathize with that poor woman, and to explain that she's doing the right thing by stopping her treatment! "My dear. You should write that doctor a letter, with love [they keep using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means], and explain that you can't go to her while she supports an organization that sells organs from babies."
Yet another Republican zombie lie that will not stop because the proponents are never punished for lying - not even religious authorities. And it looks fair to cause the death of at least one adult pretty soon.
And oh yeah, Sister Quisling will be PRAYING for that poor, deceived, ignorant, meek, brainwashed, programmed woman who's going to stop her cancer treatments because she won't go to a doctor who supports Baby-Corpse-Sellers Incorporated. Because prayer works so well at halting metastasization.
I called into that station and roared into the ear of the guy who picked up the line. "She LIED to that poor woman! It's a LIE! It's been proven over and over that it's a LIE! You are LYING! That poor woman may die of cancer now because of that LIE! How 'pro-life' is THAT?"
And all that smug male asshole said, over and over, was "Did you SEE the full video? Have you? Have you seen the full video? Have you?"
I finally hung up, because my blood pressure is quite high enough without trying to figure out what part of the Catholic church I used to attend in the 70s still exists and has not been taken over by Evangelical, political shitbags. (When I hear a "Catholic" radio station talk about The Free Market as if it's the Fifth Gospel - economics was completely missing from every sermon I survived in childhood - all I hear is Evangelical tent-preaching charlatans.)
And thanks to their dogged persistence in hanging on to the repeatedly-debunked lies about Planned Parenthood, they've just helped talk a sick woman into abandoning her doctor.
Let's see if the station chips in one red cent for that woman's funeral, or to help take care of her kids.