Posted on 05/13/2023 6:26:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
Same-sex 'married' chief minister punishes facility for refusing abortion
CANBERRA, Australia (ChurchMilitant.com) - The archbishop of Canberra is fighting back after the government of the Australian Capital Territory announced measures to seize the Calvary Public Hospital run by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.
"I am deeply troubled about the situation and its implications," Abp. Christopher Prowse wrote on Thursday in a letter to the faithful of the archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, slamming the "shocking news" of the state's decision to "compulsorily acquire" the hospital.
Prowse warned that "this extraordinary and completely unnecessary government intervention could set the scene for future 'acquisitions' of any faith-based health facility, or, indeed, any faith-based enterprise including education or social welfare."
"I am also concerned that this action, based on obsessive government control, would deprive future Catholic generations in Canberra of the choice of hospital care based on the ethos of our cherished Catholic faith," Prowse stressed.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, the first openly homosexual head of state in Australia, led the forced takeover of the hospital after the April 2023 "Inquiry into Abortion and Reproductive Choice in the ACT" asked the Catholic hospital to provide full abortion services "in accordance with human rights."
"Following the legality of abortion, societal punitive responses may have ended from the State but they still prosper at the hands of the Church," the report stated. "The medical care limited by Calvary's Catholic ethos has implications for life-saving reproductive care beyond the provision of abortion."
The report dedicated an entire subsection to the hospital's refusal to provide abortion, linking it to the report's subsection on "stigma and harassment."
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Just obeying their CCP masters.
I used to think of Australia as a good example of democracy and freedom. However, after its over-the-top Covid restrictions along with stories like this, Australia no longer looks all that appealing.
I will never visit Australia or New Zealand.
So… the leftists begin enforcing slavery again.
Neopaganism.
The Australian government is actually planning to seize a hospital for refusing to deliberately terminate the lives of innocent unborn children? Jesus wept. We are indeed living in dark times.
Benevolent Tyrants are the most dangerous form.
That is the current aussie fascist state.
They never were. They were under the crown, and like Canada, have no secured forms of freedom to point to, even on paper. They can all take away freedoms a lot more easily. And have.
Even if someone offered me a free flight ticket, I won’t either.
Gee, the Aussies have gone from funny, fair-minded, beer drinking normals to gun-grabbing, Uberwoke hostile, stone Maoist Commies in about 10 years.
Bad on 'em.
Let them rot when the Chinese invade. Money and support for Ukraine would make much more sense, if any.
For the longest time I would have loved to have seen both places.
Nowadays I will pass on any idea of visiting.
Same here, but I now have no desire to set foot in either.
I used to think of Australia as a good example of democracy and freedom. However, after its over-the-top Covid restrictions along with stories like this, Australia no longer looks all that appealing.
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I used for think of Canada in the same way. Now it appears that much of the so-called Anglosphere is coming apart at the seams. With a rapidly decaying USA it’s not surprising that this is happening. I mark the beginning of the decline to be the result of the 2008 Presidential election, but there are other events that one could cite.
I’ll stick with Paul Hogan show reruns.
To me, better than Benny Hill by just a little bit.
I’ll stick with my Little River Band records.
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Unlike England they do have a Constifution of sorts. Article on the Constitution of Canada
Ours is better but they are much better off than the UK and many other commonwealth countries.
Far away . . . But coming soon to a hospital near you!
He’s “troubled” and “concerned”.
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