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WASHINGTON, May 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study funded by the radically pro-abortion organizations, the John Merck foundation and Catholics for a Free Choice, surveyed staff at all 597 Catholic hospitals in the United States and found that only 55% of them refused to dispense the abortifacient morning after pill. Despite the deceptive name, “emergency contraceptive” works in many cases by stopping an already formed unborn child from attaching to the uterine wall. This effect is disputed by no reputable scientists. Catholic medical ethics is clear that abortion is, in all cases, and at all stages of development, the moral...

Survey Finds 45% of Catholic Hospitals in US Dispensing Abortion Drugs WASHINGTON, May 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study funded by the radically pro-abortion organizations, the John Merck foundation and Catholics for a Free Choice, surveyed staff at all 597 Catholic hospitals in the United States and found that only 55% of them refused to dispense the abortifacient morning after pill. Despite the deceptive name, “emergency contraceptive” works in many cases by stopping an already formed unborn child from attaching to the uterine wall. This effect is disputed by no reputable scientists. Catholic medical ethics is clear that abortion is,...

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 The new 'pro-choice' law that pro-aborts hate Posted: December 15, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Jill Stanek © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Abortion zealots showed their true colors (blood-red and cash-green) last week when they launched an assault against a new pro-choice law. The Hyde-Weldon Conscience Protection Amendment, signed by President Bush into law Dec. 8 as part of the 2005 Health & Human Services appropriations bill, guarantees freedom of choice to medical professionals, hospitals and health insurers to not participate in abortion if that is their preference. You would think those claiming to be "pro-choice" would welcome a law that...

CALGARY, December 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The covering-up of the picture of a saint, depicted inside a chapel at Calgary's notorious Foothills hospital, has brought the ire of local Roman Catholic bishop Fred Henry. The hospital claims the picture of St. Luke, a physician, is offensive to non-Christians, and has had doors placed over it. A note over the doors explains that any representation of the human form in a place of worship is offensive to both Jews and Muslims. Bishop Henry said the move is ridiculous. The Foothills hospital gained notoriety in 1998, after nurses charged that hospital staff...

"CATHOLIC" HOSPITAL AND ABORTION   11/23/2004   Some of you may remember my series of posts last spring on Dr. Nelson Isada of Providence Hospital, Anchorage, AK. Since then, there's also been some further coverage of the practice of "EIFWAIL" there and elsewhere.Here's the latest. I was informed this morning that Providence is providing referrals to Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the National Abortion Federation.

OPINION - I remember sitting in the office of the vice president of nursing at the hospital where I worked. She and I began discussing the hospital's induced labor abortion practice, which I had recently discovered. I thought I had an ally. This woman professed to be a born-again Christian. She said she felt called to her leadership position to be a good example to those around her. She talked about distributing Christian books to colleagues. She said she felt good to have been asked to give the dinner prayer at our staff Christmas party. But then she surprised me,...

The news was a real bummer. A reporter named Tom Szyszkiewicz, who writes for the Catholic publications, Our Sunday Visitor and the National Catholic Register, was calling to tell me he had discovered two Catholic hospital systems were committing the induced-labor abortion procedure – live-birth abortion – on handicapped babies. The bad news warped to bizarre when Szyszkiewicz said these hospitals were waiting until babies were 23 to 26 weeks gestation before aborting them – i.e., until they were of viable age – so they could say these weren't abortions at all, but simply labor inductions and, thus, sanctioned by...

Catholic hospitals are reassuring patients they'll honour living wills in the wake of a papal pronouncement that hospitals should never remove feeding tubes from patients in persistent vegetative states. Pope John Paul II said last month that feeding and hydrating such patients is "morally obligatory" - and that withdrawing feeding tubes constitutes "euthanasia by omission". Since then, US bishops, theologians and ethicists have been studying the issue closely to see what the pope's words will mean for hospital operations in the United States. For now, many hospitals are deferring to the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services"...

<p>On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, an anti-abortion group has taken on Providence hospital, asserting that a procedure done there amounts to abortion.</p> <p>The controversy is over cases in which fetuses have such severe defects that they aren't expected to live outside the womb. Their lungs or kidneys may have failed to develop, or their brain. Labor is induced early, and no medical interventions are done to help the baby survive.</p>

Check to see if your congressman voted AGAINST this bill and FREEP him if he did and congratulate your congressman who voted FOR this bill. Our NJ Congressional Delegation, including 3 Roman Catholic Congressman: Pascrell, Pallone and Menendez, voted Against allowing Doctors and Hospitals right to choose to not commit abortions.The legislation passed 229-189 with NJ 4-8-1 with Marge Roukema not voting.To see the vote tally visit:http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=412This is not a partisan issue.  37 Democrats voted for HR 4691 The Abortion Non-Discrimination Act.  24 Republicans, including Rodney Frelinghuysen, voted Against allowing medical professionals and institutions right to choose to not commit...