Posted on 03/02/2009 5:53:22 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The underhanded Obama administration has quietly moved to rescind the “conscience clause” found in agreements between the federal government and Catholic hospitals.
This “conscience clause” has always protected practitioners from being forced to commit abortions in violation of their consciences. Its removal means Catholic hospitals will be forced to choose between federal funds for committing abortions and closing down to maintain a clear conscience.
Phonies with egg on their faces
Nevertheless, phony “Catholic” judas goats like Douglas Kmiec are still beating their chests with pride at having delivered 52% of the Catholic vote to the abortion team last fall.
In January Kmiec smugly wrote “The scurrilous remarks of conservative bloggers missed the point, which was that I and millions of others who voted for Obama did so not despite our Catholic faith but because of it.”
As a proud “conservative blogger” I have to ask this vile man how voting for a monster who could allow miracle abortion surviving infants to die unattended on a cold steel table in a broom closet is Catholic faith.
Reminding us why print media is dying, two weeks ago Time’s Amy Sullivan instructed us “confused Catholics”, that FOCA does not even exist. Insisting it will not be considered, she gently explains FOCA is merely a myth imagined by our Bishops which will not be voted on in Congress so it can’t threaten the sanctity of life.
Perhaps Sullivan could discern a comforting difference between being sent to a “work camp” rather than a “concentration camp” but her logic escapes me.
The truth may be Obama doesn’t sign anything named FOCA, but whether it’s called FOCA or the Sunshine and Applesauce law, he’ll sign a law extorting Catholic hospitals into committing abortions thereby killing Catholic hospitals.
Obama’s sneaky order proves both of these phonies wrong.
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Want to bet they are the planned parenthood type of health clinics.
Well, now I’m convinced Obama is not the anti-Christ.
The anti-Christ isn’t supposed to reveal his true colors until 3 1/2 years have passed.
they should close and reopen as self insured mutual aid entities
You shouldn't assume it will go the way you think. In most cases it will mean that Catholic hospitals will start doing abortions. I will be hushed up and the team that does them will not be Catholic. Indeed I expect that most of the abortions will continue to be handled by the local abortion clinic. The only difference is that now when the occasional woman asks about abortions at the Catholic hospital they will be referred to the abortion clinic rather than flatly refused. I wish the Catholic hospitals would just close too, as a matter of principle, but it's unlikely.
It’s heating up. More opportunities to choose good and reject evil. I hope those involved choose rightly.
I am really interested in seeing exactly this, talk is cheap. Lets see who really walks the talk.
no one wants a showdown these days. They will cave...in some form or another
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I doubt it.
Close the hospitals and then get on TV and explain why. The Producers must revolt.
Barfsack will have a formidable chore implementing his Cuban-style healthcare with all of the Catholic hospitals closed.
If they're not wasting money providing free medical care to illegals who can't afford it, they won't be in such bad financial shape.
I need to check out the nearest Catholic hospital if that comes to pass.
God bless you. Your willingness to stand with us means a lot to me.
Well stated. I have been impressed with the length of the period during which deficits could grow. Since the 1930s, the nation has bound itself so tightly in its own debt that it can no longer reach into its wallet to pull out enough to cover the costs.
Behind the three doors before us is (1) high inflation, (2) debt default, or (3) a stop to spending. Behind one of the doors resides some hope for free and prosperous growth.
Which door will we choose?
BTTT for Civil Disobedience!!! The libs wrote the books (and published them); might as well use them. Which would be, by the way, very much in keeping with our Founding Fathers' tactics. The British complained because our Colonials used guerrilla tactics.
Keep your powder dry!
He wins either way. They either do it (almost all won’t) and if they don’t, govt will buy their hospitals and they’ll have more resources for national healthcare and a new home for out of work abortionists.
I wonder - is taking a patient on medicare considered "accepting federal money"? I don't know - but if it is, they might really have to close.
if the decision is between performing abortions and shutting down I think a lot of “Catholic” churches will try to justify it in their mind. I don’t see a well thought out response and mass shutdown. I hope I’m wrong
Practically speaking, at this point only debt default gets us back on our feet again. This begins with the USG Treasury bill default on about $15-20T. Comparatively, this was done before at the multi-State level, in the Panic of 1837.
The effect is to destroy our “credit rating”, which means that international trade is limited to commodity swaps. But otherwise it is the least painful, limiting government to only paying for what it has tax revenues to pay for. If government can no longer borrow money, it cannot deficit spend.
It is more interesting at the commercial level, because it means dividing our economy, and likely our currency, between “real” corporations with “real” debt, and leverage corporations with imaginary debt. With the idea that the latter collapse without taking down the former with them.
One way of doing this is to essentially declare that only our paper currency is legal tender. That electronic money is only worth what you can get for it. Because only 5% of our daily retail is backed with paper, and we cannot practically print more, with an odd exception, it is already massively deflated. It becomes our “real” currency.
This gets very bizarre in a hurry.
The US Bureau of Engraving and Printing (USBEP) has only two printing offices, both of which are at 100% capacity to print just that 5% of our retail currency, which only lasts about six months before it has to be replaced. There are about 560B $1 bills in print, but only about 160M $100 bills. So even if the government tried to print $1000 bills, nobody could make change for them.
However, the USBEP could print very high denomination (VHD) bills, from $10,000 to $10,000,000, that would not be circulated, but used to protect “real” corporations. Such bills could only be spent with US Treasury permission, to another authorized corporation, and would guarantee 100% collateral to keep corporations operating. A company literally could not go bankrupt if it had such bills backing part of its money.
Nobody, such as an individual or leverage corporation, could take these bills from a real company, and they could only be used to keep it functioning.
So leverage companies with billions of dollars in debt would collapse, yet could not buy much smaller real companies to loot them.
This divides our economy, divides our currency, and gets our much smaller government working again.
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