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1 posted on 12/03/2013 7:04:46 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Murder is not health care.


2 posted on 12/03/2013 7:17:22 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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As a minority within a majority Protestant country, but under a Constitution that protected Liberty, the Catholics did well. But, now, with the rise of a socialist majority. the Catholics and other conservative religious will become like the Copts of Egypt, marginalized, unable to run hospitals or schools or welfare programs.


3 posted on 12/03/2013 7:33:03 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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The A.C.L.U. said it had filed suit against the bishops because there had been several cases in recent years in which Catholic hospital policies on abortion had interfered with medical care

If this specific case is being cited as part of the ACLU suits against Catholic hospitals' pro-life stance, they do not have a leg to stand on (not that they do on any others). This case had to do with a young woman who was eighteen weeks pregnant and who experienced a condition known as PROM, preterm premature rupture of membranes. Her "water" broke too early in the pregnancy and the ACLU is contending that the Catholic hospital should have performed an abortion since, according to them, the baby had no chance of survival and continuing the pregnancy would jeopardize the mother's life. HOWEVER, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians:

    …when membrane rupture occurs before 37 weeks’ gestation, it is known as preterm PROM. Preterm PROM complicates approximately 3 percent of pregnancies and leads to one third of preterm births. It increases the risk of prematurity and leads to a number of other perinatal and neonatal complications, including a 1 to 2 percent risk of fetal death.

There is no mention at all whether the mother wanted to abort - in which case she should have gone to someplace where they were done, NOT a Catholic hospital - an, as mentioned in the above, babies DO survive even to full term when there has been a risk from PROM. I sincerely hope ALL Christians stand together against this insipid and dishonest attack against all our freedoms including our staunch and immovable support of the right to life of all humans.

9 posted on 12/03/2013 10:08:06 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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