Posted on 08/07/2013 7:15:38 AM PDT by markomalley
Plans by three Catholic hospital systems in Wisconsin to deny admitting privileges to doctors who perform abortions would "be in active violation of federal law," Attorney General J. B. Van Hollen's Department of Justice said in a court filing last week.
Federal law "provides that hospitals accepting federal funds may not discriminate against a physician because that physician has participated in or refused to participate in abortions," the state Justice Department said in its filing in federal court.
According to experts on federal law, if doctors can prove they were not granted privileges specifically because they perform the procedure, the hospital systems —Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Columbia St. Mary's Health System and Hospital Sisters Health System — could lose federal dollars in the form of research and public health grants.
Doctors who perform abortions would be required to obtain privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of their clinics under a new law that has been blocked until at least November by a federal judge. Seven doctors who provide abortions in the state lack privileges, and at least four are applying for them at religiously affiliated hospitals, according to their employer, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
The hospitals said they would not grant privileges to abortion providers, following confusion over their stance in federal court. In the abortion providers' challenge to the law, their attorneys said the privileges requirement would be especially difficult to meet because a large proportion of Wisconsin hospitals are religiously affiliated and opposed to abortion.
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They do it all the time. But the real problem is the patient. Elderly patients are forced onto Medicare, and poor people are forced onto Medicaid. Their options will be limited if this ruling stands. For instance, my doctor accepts Medicare (for now) and he practices at Columbia St. Mary's. If I don't want to frequent a hospital that provides abortions, I lose both my hospital and my doctor.
re: “They do it all the time. But the real problem is the patient. Elderly patients are forced onto Medicare, and poor people are forced onto Medicaid. Their options will be limited if this ruling stands. For instance, my doctor accepts Medicare (for now) and he practices at Columbia St. Mary’s. If I don’t want to frequent a hospital that provides abortions, I lose both my hospital and my doctor.”
It’s the “catch 22” routine I see. What a diabolical thing our government has become. God help us.
Damned good question, but this is what this regime is demanding. Hey, you are taking government money, you play by government rules. Same as what Indira Ghandi did in India. You really believe that this regime will tolerate any company to do as they want, while they are getting money from the regime? This is what’s going to happen to these Catholic hospitals. The government will take the money away from them and they will be forced to comply, if they want the money back
Mr. K you left one very important thing out...
FIRST they take ( steal ) your money, then they take their ‘’share’’ out then they send you a small percentage of your money back then they threaten to take it away if you dont do what THEY say.
THAT’s why you want the federal government out of EVERYTHING
First they give you money, then they threaten to take it away if you dont do what they say.
Its a mob protection racket on steroids
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