Posted on 03/16/2007 12:38:16 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Can they force them to do this. I would think the only thing the could do would be to take the public funds away. If thats the case. Shut the doors.
Correct. It makes them an apostate or heretic...take your pick...I'm not fussy.
The morning after pill is an abortifacient. So was the early pill, but John Rock lied to us about that in a famous "Look" magazine article back in the early '60s after he invented the pill. IAC, the intention behind taking the bill is to kill the "fertilized" egg. If you pick up a gun thinkng that it is loaded, aim it at a person and pull they trigger, that says something. Other forms of birth control are not necessarily trying to kill.
What is this, a special Mitt Romney preview?
Or is it a Mitt Romney Rewind?
Mitt ran for governor promising (in writing, to NARAL) to support full access to "emergency contraception".
Then he vetoed a law mandating that hospitals dispense it.
Then he said he would exempt Catholic hospitals.
Then he was criticized in the Boston Globe for exempting Catholic hospitals.
Then he caved and said he would NOT exempt Catholic hospitals.
Too many liberal Catholics vote for people like Ritter. Especially the older FDR Dems.
Sean Hannity would approve!
Agree. . .take it to the Surpreme Court or wherever it needs to go. . .a Catholic Hospital has a right to distinguish itself by it's own 'raison d'etre. . .so to speak. . .
'Catholic' IS supposed to mean something.
Read the next sentence in the article.
I live in Colorado and Bill Ritter supports upholding Roe v Wade. Ritter also ran on signing the bill requiring hospitals to notify rape victims of the availability of the morning after pill. Ritter is no friend to conservatism. He wants health care provided to the states 700K uninsured voters, supports domestic partnership and wants to increase education spending. Dyed in the wool Democrat. Hopefully fiscal conservatives from both parties who sit in the state legislature can hold his feet to the fire for the next four years.
My guess is that hospitalized or emergency room patients that request emergency contraception are rape victims. I would imagine a decision that can be perceived as "preventing rape victims emergency contraception" would be horribly unpopular for a politician to make. Personally, I disagree with making the Catholic Hospital provide a service that is so clearly against its teaching. I also think that women who are rape victims should have access to emergency contraception. Especially those who are not Catholic. It is a tough situation for a politician. Especially because most of them are cowards.
True. There's no reason to assume he's Catholic at all... could be Episcopalian.
Yes, being pro-life typically requires taking a stand against killing people whether it's with crowbars, knives, pointy sticks, forceps, or pills. Must you really have all the various types of murder enumerated?
1. No killing any one with a jackhammer on the 2nd Thursday in March.
2. No killing any one with a chainsaw in Ohio after lunch.
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Read the next sentence in the article.
I read it. He said nothing. He did not call him out.
Archbishop Chaput should shut down all of the Catholic Hospitals in Colorado and let the Governor figure out what he is going to do next!
Governor Ritter will get an honorary Degree from some Good Catholic University such as Notre Dame!
Archbishop Chaput should shut down all of the Catholic Hospitals in Colorado and let the Governor figure out what he is going to do next!
Governor Ritter will get an honorary Degree from some Good Catholic University such as Notre Dame!
He's Catholic, according to Wikipedia.
So much for "choice", huh?
I guess being "pro-choice" has its limits.
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