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To: victim soul; siunevada

Catholic hospitals, like every other hospital in this country, rely on taxpayer dollars for their financial survival. As long as they're doing that, they should be required to provide all legal medical procedures that patients request. Anytime they want to start living on their own dime, they should be free to impose whatever restrictions they want. I won't be holding my breath for that, though, since the Catholic Church in the U.S. has driven itself into financial ruin by aiding and abetting pedophile priests in their illegal and immoral activities, and doesn't have much left over to fund things like faith-compliant medical facilities.


18 posted on 11/16/2005 2:18:44 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I won't be holding my breath for that

Try anyway...

24 posted on 11/16/2005 2:28:52 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Very often it's the other way around -- in which a county or municipal government relies on Catholic hospitals to care for a large number of its citizens.

The same goes for schools in some parts of the country. I can tell you right now that the New York City would collapse tomorrow if the Catholic schools in this diocese were to close.

25 posted on 11/16/2005 2:30:53 PM PST by Alberta's Child (What it all boils down to is that no one's really got it figured out just yet.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Anytime they want to start living on their own dime, they should be free to impose whatever restrictions they want.

Or the government could withdraw their funds, if it really mattered to them.

the Catholic Church in the U.S. has driven itself into financial ruin by aiding and abetting pedophile priests in their illegal and immoral activities, and doesn't have much left over to fund things like faith-compliant medical facilities.

So. They've all been closed? No problem then.

27 posted on 11/16/2005 2:36:12 PM PST by siunevada
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