[NYer]

They had better stand tall, strong and totally united on this issue.

[Jeff Chandler]

We’ll see.

[Lou Budvis]

I hope they stay strong on this issue. They have more hand than they know. There is a Catholic hosptial down the street from me and as much as I appreciate it being there; I would rather it shut down than to ever have an abortion performed there. This is also an excellent chance to pit the workers in the hospitals against the rabid abortionists in the rat party.

[samiam1972]

What was I just saying yesterday?

[sitetest]

The anti-Christ Obama and all its demonic dammocrap minions, and everyone who voted for the anti-Christ Obama can all return back to their father, the liar.

[PGR88]

it’s not just the Hospitals that will have to close. Schools may have to someday close because they choose not to promote gay marriage as equal. Church marriages may not be recognized as valid for the same reason. Certainly there are those who would also like to remove tax-free status from Catholic Churches because they are advocating “political” ideas.

We may not see it in our lifetimes, but perhaps any remaining Catholics who choose not to join the Government Churches (as in China) will need to go underground.

[fortunecookie]

Also, the Catholic Church runs this on a non-profit basis, spending vast sums of its money to ensure access for those unable to pay. That’s the kind of model that many on the Left believe should exclusively provide health care — and FOCA would spell the end of the major provider already in that model.

The Catholic run hospital is the model of healthcare and hospital that the left envisions, yet they seek to force it's hand? Which will of course only worsen the healthcare situation, for those already on the edge of affording care. One would hope those on the left would see the need to let the Catholic hospitals exist as they have, a vital part of our healthcare system.

[SaintDismas]

I watched the bishops on EWTW discuss these items a few days ago. What I don’t understand is how they would divest these hospitals of the Catholic presense and not let them be converted into secular hospitals that do the evil they would then do.

[Defiant]

If they do shut down, it will provide an excuse for Obama to take them over.

[FrdmLvr]

DO it! I’ve heard this before, but they need to get serious about it.

[kidd]

Expect democrats to take the hospitals by Eminant Domain

[TASMANIANRED]

My prayers are lifted.

[theKid51]

Ping

[jwalsh07]

[The bishops will] shut them down and take the losses in order to prevent their use as abortion clinics. To do otherwise, the bishops stated, would be to cooperate in the evil of abortions.

As they damn well should.

[Clemenza]

You receive public money, expect to do the “state’s” bidding. Same goes for “vouchers.”

[uscabjd]

Does the FOCA demand that Catholic hospitals and Drs perform abortions?