[Jefferson]

Massachusetts Catholic Hospitals Moral Crisis

This is the show from Tuesday March 24th, 2009.

SUMMARY:

* Ireland's Pro-life Activist John O'Gorman: now living in Massachusetts, John O'Gorman talks to Bob Enyart about the moral crisis of Mitt Romney/Catholic Hospital nexus. First, governor Mitt Romney unilaterally "ordered" his states' Catholic hospitals to administer Plan B, The Morning After Pill to kill children, an unlawful and murderous "order" that the hospitals should have shut down over rather than accept. Next, activists found out that the adoption service of Massachusetts' Catholic Charities was placing children with homosexual partners. Meanwhile, the former governor Romney ordered the issuance of homosexual marriage licenses and authorized tax-funded elective abortions. Now, Caritas Christi, the chain of six Massachusetts Catholic hospitals has contracted with the state's health authority to get public monies promising to provide "Romney Care" for 163,000 patients. And the hospitals have stated that they will perform services as required by law or they will refer private "family planning" requests to other providers. O'Gorman said that is like Catholic hospitals saying, "We won't gas the Jews ourselves, but we'll put them on the trains."

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[chrysostom]

do you have any other sources for this?

[annabenedetti]

Originally Posted by Jefferson

Massachusetts Catholic Hospitals Moral Crisis

And the hospitals have stated that they will perform services as required by law or they will refer private "family planning" requests to other providers.

The quote I bolded above is incorrect. The Catholic hospitals will not perform any abortion services.
Unfortunately, the second part is correct. Any requests for abortion services will be referred back to their secular insurance partner, Commonwealth Care.

Here's some additional background:

http://www.catholicactionleague.org/

My Catholic layman's opinion: Cardinal O'Malley should have instructed the Catholic hospital network, Caritas Christi, to refuse all state funding, and he should threaten to shut the Catholic hospitals down if they are forced by the state to deny Church teaching. I don't expect to see that happen.
Where weakness is perceived, weakness will be exploited.

[chrysostom]

I hope Jefferson can explain all this

[keypurr]

I don't think any church should accept tax dollars. It compromises their beliefs. If tax money is used to support an institution then the publidc has a say in its operation. Seperate Church and state. The hospital should have the right to it doctrine, but not with tax money.