Metmom, philosophically and spiritually I think we are aligned (I am an evangelical Christian who is pro-life, pro-marriage, and base my values on Christ’s teaching... I believe you do the same). The only point you made in your post that I really think you should give some more thought to is about the hospitals being used for their reproductive services.
The LAST thing I want is a bunch of people to start using the hospitals for their routine services. I think there should be more options besides Planned Parenthood but I don’t know what all those options or answers might be, other than clinics to be developed that might serve women’s reproductive needs without doing abortions. Of course, even that starts getting dicey because technically, Roman Catholic teaching says no artificial birth control and even many evangelicals believe it is wrong.
I just think we need to stay vocal about what Planned Parenthood does and pray, pray, pray.
I know of hospitals which have breast screening clinics incorporated with them. There’s one in CNY here and it’s very close to a poor section of town. The local bus lines all make it one of their stops.
It’s not a matter of using hospitals for *reproductive services*, it’s having mammography equipment available in a separate section where women can go for mammograms.
It only makes sense as hospitals often have other radiology services attached to them. Even small ones are Capable of doing MRI’s and CAT scans and I believe that mammograms are not as costly as those.