Posted on 11/16/2005 2:00:47 PM PST by victim soul
Perhaps PP would like to open some full care hospitals of their own. Find out just how many people support them.
I don't have a problem with this, since the term "publicly-funded Catholic hospital" is an oxymoron by definition.
Ping.
Not her again! This is one woman funded by the Ford Foundation. And she ain't no Catholic.
And well they might...
Those "Catholics for a Free Choice" should hie themselves off to some other church where anything goes. I can think of several denominations. For them to expect the church to change to accomodate them is the height of selfishness.
The Catholic hospitals that I've ever been to have been wonderfully welcoming places. If given the equivalent choice I'd always choose a Catholic hospital, even if just so that I can say hi to "Sister Mary Lobby", which is the term of endearment used by a Catholic hospital that I have the most experience with, in reference to the beautiful Nun who was an icon for decades in the lobby.
When we lost our last commercial hospital in this area, the only remaining hospital was a Catholic one (supported via endowment). The local chapter of the ACLU wanted the Catholic hospital to agree to provide abortion services or they were not going to allow the commercial hospital to close it's doors. The single most important health issue to liberals is access to services to erase their sexual misdeeds.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Is it really? If you live in Alberta, you should know that several hospitals are Catholic, and are provincially funded.
There, fixed.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
There's another name for a Catholic who supports abortion.....Episcopalian.
I don't think they've got the support they would need to run a hospital. They can only manipulate government funds like this:
"We've helped 52 communities in 25 states face proposed religious hospital mergers," says Lois Uttley, the organization's director. "We defeated 19 of these proposals and forged compromises in 15 other cases that saved at least some threatened services. We have also unraveled eight existing mergers that were detrimental to reproductive health."
At Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, MergerWatch helped health advocates (including Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region) create a separate "hospital within a hospital" on the fifth floor of the city-owned facility so patients could continue getting tubal ligations and emergency contraception. The rest of the hospital was managed by a Catholic health system under contract with the city.
Catholic hospitals, like every other hospital in this country, rely on taxpayer dollars for their financial survival. As long as they're doing that, they should be required to provide all legal medical procedures that patients request. Anytime they want to start living on their own dime, they should be free to impose whatever restrictions they want. I won't be holding my breath for that, though, since the Catholic Church in the U.S. has driven itself into financial ruin by aiding and abetting pedophile priests in their illegal and immoral activities, and doesn't have much left over to fund things like faith-compliant medical facilities.
Not even Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs, sausage, and Spam for breakfast!
Waaaaah!
My masticatory choice rights are being violated!
Since it's an 'emanation from the penumbra' of the Constitution it's always in danger of evaporating.
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