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Now mind you we are not talking about them getting government money...we're talking about them getting permission to use their OWN money to expand.
The ironic part of this is that, at least in the case of Holy Cross, they do a goodly amount of indigent care for charity patients (don't know one way or the other about Washington Adventist).
Liberals disgust me.
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There has to be more about the situation about the mother whose life was saved, because AFAIK the Catholics have no problem with a fetal death occurring as a consequence of treatment of a mother’s life threatening illness, however inexorable that consequence may be (such as removing the part of the uterus involved in an ectopic pregnancy).
Oftentimes the religious-affiliated take money from the government in other ways, and are beholden to them for that. While the expansion money may be from the religious group, they are probably subsidized in another way by the state; they’d have to be for the state to dictate terms to them. In NJ the Catholic hospitals are slowly dying off; the state continuously reduces the amount they will reimburse for “charity care” in a state (and especially our cities, where most Catholic hospitals are) that is filled with “charity care” (between the permanent underclass and a HUGE illegal alien population).
The “State” has effectively destroyed competition from religious groups in terms of education & healthcare in NJ; I’m sure the same is happening in areas where the religious institutions were as old & widespread (they’ve become unsustainable, for a number of reasons).
There is nothing about “conservative bishops” that has lead to any change in Church policy regarding these hospitals; the fact that some had become de facto “secular hospitals” in “the spirit of Vatican II” (as many Catholic schools did) in no way indicates that prior practices were legitimately “Catholic”. While the American Catholic hierarchy may be completely spineless, the fact that we live in an “information age” has pressured them to perform as nothing else has: do something stupid, and it will be broadcast far & wide literally in seconds; the hierarchy is very quickly pressured to act on it. Cellphone pics of liturgical abuses flourish, complete with names & dates of the offenders. The “progressive” media, intent on destroying the Church, has become the best vehicle in keeping it true to its roots; the example of a First Communion a few years back in a NJ diocese is a case in point. One of the recipients was a young girl with some allergic reaction to gluten; when the “nun” in charge of the affair went ahead and had a special gluten-free “host” used for her (and was widely praised for her ingenuity), the bishop had to promptly declare the sacrament null & void until they used a low-gluten host to actually administer the sacrament (the ingredients of the host were central to the sacrament - even alcoholic priests must use wine with a very low alcohol content for the same reason).
Kiss off, WaPo. I salute the Catholics for have the courage of their convictions. I am convinced my wife and I should have had more children, but it is too late now, alas.
There is nothing "reproductive" about abortion.
Speaking as one who finds repugnant the fact that the Catholic Church won't allow an abortion to save the life of the mother:
So, in other words, because abortions cannot be performed at Holy Cross, to Hell with anybody who could use those prospective extra hospital beds.
It seems at times that liberalism is a mental disorder.
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Oh heavens, that Catholics should practice their professions in light of their faith.
$$$ to donuts there would be no outcry - indeed, there would be celebrations and tax $$$ galore - if there was a “Holy Crescent Moslem Hospital” asking for same.
It’s a bastardization of the phrase “medical” to include reproductive “choices”, anyway. There is no MEDICAL reason to stop having babies, etc, or FTM to get men erections. Such procedures or pills, etc., shouldn’t be covered by insurance, either (part of our “problems” with medical insurance, anyway - and then ask who DEMANDS they cover it).
