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If a Catholic hospital can be legally forced to administer "morning-after (instant abortion) pills" in the case of "emergencies" such as rape (with or without actual violence) even if the mother decided it was "rape" a day or two later, then that hospital is being forced to abandon the Roman Catholic Church that owns it and the Faith that underlies the Roman Catholic Church.

If this society wants to go to hell in a handbasket with 50 million dead babies by surgical abortion alone and probably ten times that many dead from chemical (abortifacient pill) abortions, that does not yet mean that a society with our First Amendment may require Catholics to repudiate their Faith in order to run hospitals.

That which prevents implantation in the uterine wall is every bit as much an abortion, a homicide, a killing, a murder, as is surgical abortion or blowing your spouse's brain to kingdom come in order to avoid the expense of divorce, or following the professional ways of Mr. Tookie Williams, or acting as did Charles Manson and his "girls."

If this society wants to go to hell in a handbasket ... that does not yet mean that a society with our First Amendment may require Catholics to repudiate their Faith in order to run hospitals.

I hate to be a downer, BlackElk, but they're making an awfully strong try at doing it. Unfortunately, the imaginary "right" to abortion overrides every genuine, enumerated right in the Constitution.

Equally unfortunately, Catholic (and "Catholic") as well as other Christian social service organizations have surrendered to state power on so many other moral issues that they haven't cultivated the moral fortitude or logical clarity to stand firm on this one, I'm afraid.