# Citing Catholic Rules, Doctor Turns Away Bleeding Woman With Dislodged IUD **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 28, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325 "2016-08-28T19:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/101 "2016-08-31T14:22:44Z")
[What would Jeezus do?](http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050504a.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/102 "2016-08-31T18:00:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I understand that. But, speaking as a Catholic, do you think that it is ethical by Catholic standards? > > That’s the issue I have with you treating ethics as being personal. It’s also institutional. You have ethics you follow as a lawyer, and you have ethics you follow as a Catholic. You talk about the former, so I think you could talk about the latter. > > What I’ve read before suggests that Catholicism teaches a duty to treat a dying patient. There may be some exceptions if the patient themselves doesn’t want to be treated, depending on what I read. But that’s it. > > For example, this from [the Catholic Health association](https://www.chausa.org/publications/health-progress/article/june-1993/care-of-the-dying-a-catholic-perspective) appears to say that there is a requirement to treat due to the sanctity of life. Only those acts which add increased suffering are wrong. I don’t know enough the medical condition at issue. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/103 "2016-08-31T21:09:27Z")
> [@chorpler](#): > > Sorry for this hijack, but is “phariseetic” really the adjectival form of Pharisee(s)? I find it oddly intriguing… Probably not. Regardless it was invented on the fly (though not for the first time, judging from the internet). Over [here](http://www.christianlandmark.com/2009/05/11/pharisaic-behavior/) and moreover [here](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pharisaic?s=t), the word pharisaic is used. That sounds more credible, though it lacks the whiff of snark that I was pursing upthread. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/104 "2016-08-31T21:56:19Z")
“Pharisaic” is standard. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/105 "2016-08-31T22:10:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The heartless fuckwads had the law on their side. > All is right with the world. I thought that was every Bricker post… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325/106 "2016-11-06T04:22:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I must have gone to a different Sunday School than these people, the Jesus I got wouldn’t even _scold_ you for helping someone bleeding and in pain. > > More like “Yeah, sure, its on the books, technically a sin…Don’t worry about it, we cool.” Yes. This sounds more like a legalistic “follow the letter of the law and to hell with the right of it” thing … the Pharisees. You can kill through deliberate inaction, as surely as you can through direct action. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/citing-catholic-rules-doctor-turns-away-bleeding-woman-with-dislodged-iud/764325.md?page=5)