From Lifenews.com
Catholic Bishop: Hospitals Won't Close But Won't Comply With Pro-Abortion FOCA
A leading Catholic bishop says Catholic hospitals won't close but neither will they comply with a law requiring them to do abortions if the radical Freedom of Choice Act ever becomes law. The FOCA bill could overturn the conscience laws that allows the hospitals to opt out of doing abortions.
Under the original FOCA bill, which has not been reintroduced in the current Congress, limits on forcing medical centers or staff to do abortions could be overturned.
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“Idle threats about the certain closing of Catholic hospitals if certain things happen are simply that – idle,” the bishop said about threats of closing hospitals.
“Catholic hospitals will not allow abortions to be performed in their facilities," Lynch wrote and they will not comply with forced abortion laws “even if our actions constitute civil disobedience,” he said.
“No Catholic institution or employee of an institution can or will be made to violate the dictates of their conscience resulting from federal or state legislative action,” Bishop Lynch added, according to CNS. But "we will not close" either because Catholic hospitals have an obligation to serve patients for non-abortion reasons.
The CHA reaffirmed its opposition to the FOCA bill during the meeting, CNS indicated.
The problem is that in a worst case scenario, with passage of FOCA and aggressive enforcement by the government, the hospitals could be defunded, their adminstrators held in contempt of court, etc.
Let's not assume it couldn't get this bad - we must aggressively fight FOCA, and it's NY State equivalent, which has been re-named from RHAPP to RHA.
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