“Catholic Hospitals Expand, Religious Strings Attached” was the front page headline in todays’ New York Times. The accompanying article detailed how Catholic hospitals merged with smaller secular hospitals and dictated what care could be given. Many of the mergers took away contraceptive services previously available to women.
One system, Catholic Healthcare West, owned a hospital in Arizona. “One of its Catholic hospitals performed what it considered a life-saving abortion in 2009, but the local bishop in Phoenix disagreed, and the nun who allowed the procedure was excommunicated.”
That’s an interesting theological position. Make the woman die in order to maintain church doctrine.
What would Jesus do?
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