Sure the Catholic Church cares about alleviating suffering…it just cares about doing god’s supposed will more, and if god’s will means people suffer, so be it.

Despite her being in excruciating pain and with virtually no chance her pregnancy could survive, Mercy Health Partners told

Means there was nothing it could do and did not tell Means that

terminating her pregnancy was an option and the safest course

for her condition, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit accuses the United States Conference of Catholic

Bishops of creating health care directives “that cause pregnant

women who are suffering from a miscarriage to be denied

appropriate medical care, including information about their

condition and treatment options.”

To think how compassionate they’d be without the meddling hands of the Church. And I’ll wager the Catholic Church sneers at Christian sects who eschew all medical treatment. It makes it all the more ironic that the Catholic Church would then deny standard medical care to people and withhold knowledge while considering themselves so much better. As if people are strange for thinking god wants them to deny themselves medical care because god really wants you to lie to other people about medical care.