Hospital Under Fire For Refusing Treatment to Straight Married Couple

Note: None of the content in this piece is true.  It's all fiction and my attempt at satire.

This week, the Davis Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee faced a litany of protests for refusing fertility treatment to a straight married couple, Chad and Karen Witherbottom.  The doctor, Kevin Mondel, cited Tennessee’s newly passed Medical Ethics Defense Act as a reason, referring to the fact that a doctor refused natal care to a woman for being unmarried.  “If it can work one way,” Mondel said, “Why not the other?”

Lindy Weitz of Tennessean Christians for Marital Privilege did not agree with Mondel’s interpretation of the act, saying, “God said man was not meant to be alone, that’s why he gave Adam Eve.  So that belief is wrong and this doctor will be condemned to Hell.”

Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), whose staffers had recently told the woman, “he’s not obligated to listen to his constituents,” was able to meet immediately with the angry couple.  He had this to say: “While the Medical Ethics Defense Act does entitle this doctor to treat according to his beliefs, I believe it is wrong for him to do so.”  He then had to exit the interview for a round of golf.

Doctor Mondel then said, “Well, I guess they’ll just have to go to one of the many other clinics that cater to straight married couples.”  He then concluded our interview to attend to a trans identify teenager who’d been denied care on the basis of their existence.