[IMRight]

I am much more devoted to God's will than the average Catholic hospital

Doesn't sound like it... but that's not my call. which, in many cases, also dispenses RU-486

A dishonest debating point. They do so after the legislatures and the courts forced them to. Some Catholic Church health insurance plans have been forced to pay for abortions too. But it certainly wasn't by the choice of the Church.

[steve86]

Wrong on both counts. Many Catholic hospitals -- and I am Catholic -- offered the abortifacient long before being coerced to do so, which is not widespread. You would be shocked at a recent list of Catholic hospitals offering that murderous "service" along with other techniques of infanticide. These were performed even before RU-486 was invented.

The decision to offer RU-486 certainly wasn't under the direction of the Vatican -- I agree -- rather was a heinous decision on the part of hospital administrators.

Regarding ectopic pregnancies, the medical profession should invest considerable research effort into developing techniques to transplant the developing baby into the mother's uterus. If that attempt fails, as it usually would, then that's the way it goes. The baby unavoidably dies and the mother's life often would be saved. That is a whole lot different from murdering the baby -- not even giving it a chance -- at the outset.

I'm shocked and appalled you feel that a good faith effort to save innocent babies (along with their mother) is not consistent with Christian principles. The "mother's health" argument, as others have pointed out, it a slippery slope that has already been traversed. Most abortions done for the "mother's health" have nothing to do with ectopic pregnancy.