wtf?!

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Woman Says Anti-Abortion Nurse Removed IUD Without Permission, Then Lectured Her.

I mean seriously, wtf?! I hope they sue the arse off her.

Especially when you get to:

"Defendant Olona stated, 'Everyone in the office always laughs and tells me I pull these out on purpose because I am against them, but it's not true, they accidentally come out when I tug.'

People in the office laugh about this?

I'm now wondering just how many other cases there are - and hoping they all come out of the woodwork and sue as well. Once is an accident. Enough times to be a workplace joke is either incompetence or something worse.

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[undergroundsea.livejournal.com]

She sounds like she's been inhaling too much Jesus!

I think they'll be able to get her on incompetency, if nothing else. She doesn't sound very smart or well-briefed by her lawyers. I love imagining what her office mates are like :)

I just want to know if I ever murder someone whether I can go: "my mates say I shouldn't carry around a loaded gun, but people just die when I shoot."

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She doesn't sound very smart or well-briefed by her lawyers.

Understatement. Particularly what she was quoted as having said in court.

I just want to know if I ever murder someone whether I can go: "my mates say I shouldn't carry around a loaded gun, but people just die when I shoot."

No, because you're carrying a weapon you know has the potential to go off and which is known to be lethal.

I'm trying to think of a correlation, and the only one I can come up with is the woman in Belgium who replaced her daughter's birth control pills (this was quite some time ago, back when they came in jars) with sugar pills. And then was shocked when her daughter got pregnant - apparently her correlation was "if she isn't taking the pills she won't have sex." Or something.

[vestalvagrant.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the article yet, but the bit you've quoted is horrifying.

[vestalvagrant.livejournal.com]

Read it now - I'm surprised the charges don't include sexual assault and sexual harassment.

[kirstenfleur.livejournal.com]

Talk of someone being in the wrong job...

I hope she's deregistered.

[valamelmeo.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I'm not really surprised, to be honest. I wouldn't be horribly surprised if all she got for this was a fine. I'm not sure about New Mexico, but a few other states have laws and/or court precedents protecting the rights of medical professionals to deny birth control measures (usually focusing on pharmacists and emergency contraception, but this falls under the same umbrella), so basically they'd just be ruling on whether or not this was an accident.

What actually surprises me is that she thinks an IUD is an abortion and doesn't think birth control pills are (I'm not up on the dogma about DepoProvera or Norplant, they must not be common enough for anyone to have a misguided opinion about them).

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a few other states have laws and/or court precedents protecting the rights of medical professionals to deny birth control measures

There's a bit of a difference between denying access to birth control and actively removing it without consent though. If the nurse in question had that much of a problem with what she was being asked to do she should have asked to be assigned some other duty. Once she'd agreed to do it, then she should be doing it competently.

I agree that the court will have to rule on whether the removal was or wasn't accidental. I certainly don't think the nurse has helped her own case by her admission in court, put it that way - she's either just admitted to a sustained course of action or that she is in fact incompetent. Either way, I think she'd have to be seen as liable.

What actually surprises me is that she thinks an IUD is an abortion and doesn't think birth control pills are

Yeah, that floored me a bit as well. She certainly doesn't seem like the brightest bulb in the box, or particularly consistent in her beliefs.

The other thing that surprised me was that anyone was still using IUDs, I honestly thought they'd have been replaced by implants by now!

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, that's terrifying. And the fact that none of them seem to care (ie, laughing about it) is even worse. What utter scumbags, I hope the lot of them are sacked.