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<b><font color="0000ff">Could St. Louis lose its Catholic hospitals under new federal abortion legislation?</font></b> <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>A proposed bill promising major changes in the U.S. abortion landscape has Roman Catholic bishops threatening to close Catholic hospitals if the Democratic Congress and White House make it law. <BR> <BR>The Freedom of Choice Act failed to get out of subcommittee in 2004, but its sponsor is poised to refile it now that former Senate co-sponsor Barack Obama occupies the Oval Office. <BR> <BR>...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/religion/story/E6E47067257DB95E862575710014DD57?OpenDocument" target=_top>http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/ religion/story/E6E47067257DB95E862575710014DD57?Op enDocument</a> <BR> <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>Speaking in Baltimore in November at the bishops' fall meeting, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, a Chicago auxiliary bishop, took up the issue of what to do with Catholic hospitals if FOCA became law. "It would not be sufficient to withdraw our sponsorship or to sell them to someone who would perform abortions," he said. "That would be a morally unacceptable cooperation in evil." ... <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=612193" target=_top>http://www.stltoday.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=612 193</a> <BR> <BR>Now what could the catholics be suggesting, not selling their hospitals to anyone, and just shutting down???
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Good riddance. One more tax subsidy we'd be rid of. <BR> <BR>The catholics excommunicate the people involved in the humanitarian abortion in Brazil. <BR> <BR>They excommunicated Goebbels for marrying a protestant woman. <BR> <BR>But Hitler is in Good Standing. <BR> <BR>I say good riddance.
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Let the SDA take over, they do abortions don't they???
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My wife has worked at an SDA hospital, a Catholic hospital, a community hospital, and a taxable-profit hospital. <BR> <BR>The only one she would never work for again is the SDA hospital. Says they are too unethical the way they treat patients when their insurance runs out.
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That may be true, but the others don't have the capacity to take over all the Catholic Hospitals if they shut down.
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Here in Denver the Catholic Hospitals and the Adventist Hospitals are run by the same corporation. They just have different Bibles on the tables and different sayings on the walls. A few more virgin old ladies in the Catholic hospitals. Etc. <BR> <BR>Shut 'em down. They would just be shooting themselves in the foot.
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