Julie Sunday of How to Have Sex in Texas has some seriously annoying news

File this under “OMFG.” As reported in the Austin-American Statesman, the “Seton Family of Hospitals,” a Catholic hospital operating organization that runs Brackenridge, Austin’s public, safety-net hospital, is refusing to continue operating a clinic that sees “high risk” pregnant women who need birth control after pregnancy to keep them, you know, alive. Jesus Christmas.

She said it here.

Seriously? These are the same bottled wads who blithely wafted child-sex predators around their system for something on the order of centuries rather than subject them to the discomforts of civil authorities. Yet they’re too sensitive to save women’s lives after they’ve given birth?

Can I just be really, really, really rude and suggest there might be a link between their institutional bias in favor of children and against women? After all, unlike children women can become inconveniently pregnant when sexually manipulated, or abused, or even earnestly and reciprocally loved by members of a nominally-celibate clergy.

Actually that might not even be quite so much rude as gruesomely pragmatic. From an institutional standpoint, and even a historical/document standpoint, the Church has been far, far more procedurally and managerially inconvenienced by ordinary adult heterosexuality than by the proportionately much-smaller inconvenience of pedophilia or homosexuality. Small wonder that, again from an institutional standpoint, they’d hate women. (I’m sure individuals have been positively fond of women they know personally. But over the last fifteen or twenty centuries the accumulated paperwork alone must be tremendous!)

Sigh.