{"id":277901,"date":"2022-10-16T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277901"},"modified":"2022-10-13T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:00:50","slug":"washington-post-worried-catholic-hospitals-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-post-worried-catholic-hospitals-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post is worried about Catholic hospitals… because of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent <\/span>article in the Washington Post<\/span><\/a> has targeted the growing influence of Catholic hospitals under the guise of concern for the health care provided there. But in reality, the heart of the Post\u2019s concern is that more Catholic hospitals means fewer places abortions can be committed \u2014\u00a0even in states with entrenched abortion laws like California, Illinois, and Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catholic healthcare is not a newcomer to the scene, and in fact has been providing healthcare in line with Catholic beliefs <\/span>since the invention of hospitals by Catholics in the Middle Ages<\/span><\/a>. Such attacks on Catholic healthcare are also not new, according to Sr. Mary Haddad, RSM, the president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get at us for a long time, and now they\u2019re using Dobbs,\u201d Sister Haddad said, according to <\/span>America Magazine<\/span><\/a>. \u201cBut quite honestly, nothing has changed. This has always been the way Catholic [health networks] provided care in their communities. It\u2019s not as if we\u2019ve done anything different.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many abortion advocates attempt to twist health care that respects both mother and preborn child into something it isn\u2019t, and the article\u2019s tagline proclaims that \u201creligious doctrine restricts access to abortion and birth control and limits treatment options for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.\u201d But treatment for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages do not require induced abortion<\/em>, as neonatologist Dr. Kendra Kolb <\/span>points out<\/span><\/a>. Health care aims to \u201cdo no harm,\u201d and induced abortion \u2013 the <\/span>direct and intentional killing<\/span><\/a> of a preborn baby \u2013 always deliberately takes a life, and therefore <\/span>is not legitimate health care<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n