The question then becomes to what extent (if any) the hospital can be called "Catholic".
Regarding ectopic pregnancies, the medical profession should invest considerable research effort into developing techniques to transplant the developing baby into the mother's uterus.
I'm afraid that's not possible. Such a pregnancy can't be detected until well past the point when any sort of procedure can be performed. I'd be in favor of anyone who wanted to try it (since it would be done long before mom's life was in danger), but the idea displays ignorance of how the baby grows.
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.
You're misrepresenting my position.
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.
Who's talking about the mother's "health"? I'm talking uniquely about not just a choice of one life over another, but a point when there is no choice at all. It's baby and mom die or baby dies and mom lives. The choice is only whether mom can be saved.
However, very little effort has been expended on the uterus transplant possibility. It is so much easier and more convenient to kill the developing baby. You have bought into that expediency. Your accusing me of ignorance of "how the baby" grows is actually a passive acceptance of the medical industry's status quo on ectopic pregnancies, which is to get rid of the little irritant, just like any abortion.
We all know that considerable efforts have gone into "test tube" pregnancies, and although we as Catholics disagree with the motives there, it illustrates what can be accomplished when money finds its way into reproduction research. You can't tell me that any efforts here are futile, I don't buy it. Many would like to believe that.
Evidently, the political climate, even at Catholic hospitals, does not result in this research being funded. It is a shame as is the certain loss of the developing baby, when a fraction of the research money going to AIDS, for example, might result in a few saved babies and mothers.