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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCatholic Hospital Chain Abandons Church Abortion Doctrine to Defend Against Lawsuit
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Sued for wrongful death of unborn twins, major Catholic health provider claims a fetus is not a person http://gaw.kr/CYDDNBK
from the Colorado Independent: http://coloradoindependent.com/126808/in-malpractice-case-catholic-hospital-argues-fetuses-arent-people
In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses arent people
____The lead defendant in the case is Catholic Health Initiatives, the Englewood-based nonprofit that runs St. Thomas More Hospital as well as roughly 170 other health facilities in 17 states. Last year, the hospital chain reported national assets of $15 billion. The organizations mission, according to its promotional literature, is to nurture the healing ministry of the Church and to be guided by fidelity to the Gospel. Toward those ends, Catholic Health facilities seek to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those rules have stirred controversy for decades, mainly for forbidding non-natural birth control and abortions. Catholic health care ministry witnesses to the sanctity of life from the moment of conception until death, the directives state. The Churchs defense of life encompasses the unborn.
The directives can complicate business deals for Catholic Health, as they can for other Catholic health care providers, partly by spurring political resistance. In 2011, the Kentucky attorney general and governor nixed a plan in which Catholic Health sought to merge with and ultimately gain control of publicly funded hospitals in Louisville. The officials were reacting to citizen concerns that access to reproductive and end-of-life services would be curtailed. According to The Denver Post, similar fears slowed the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworths plan over the last few years to buy out Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in the Denver metro area.
But when it came to mounting a defense in the Stodghill case, Catholic Healths lawyers effectively turned the Church directives on their head. Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect unborn persons, and Catholic Healths lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights.
As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver-based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court should not overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term person, as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive. Colorado state courts define person under the Act to include only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful death claims based on two unborn fetuses.
read more: http://coloradoindependent.com/126808/in-malpractice-case-catholic-hospital-argues-fetuses-arent-people
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Catholic Hospital Chain Abandons Church Abortion Doctrine to Defend Against Lawsuit (Original Post)
bigtree
Jan 2013
OP
Looks like they actually worship money, and not their "God given principles"
democrat_patriot
Jan 2013
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democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)1. Looks like they actually worship money, and not their "God given principles"
Who knew?