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Roman Catholic Bishops Prepared to Defy FOCA If it Becomes Law
Hooray for the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops! Not only are they mobilizing Catholic churches in opposition to the unconscionable FOCA, but they are prepared to defy it should it become law.
Under FOCA, all state and federal right to life laws and regulations would be wiped away. Among those provisions that could be overturned under FOCA would be protections for hospitals and medical professionals from being forced to perform or participate in abortions. Catholic officials had previously said that Catholic hospitals would be forced to close if FOCA became law because they would not participate in abortion-related activities that violate their consciences. But now, it appears they are willing to defy FOCA should it become law.
In a Catholic News Service interview with Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Bishop Lynch said that rather than close, Catholic hospitals would defy FOCA! He said, “Catholic hospitals will not allow abortions to be performed in their facilities” and they will not comply with forced abortion laws “even if our actions constitute civil disobedience.”
He went on to say, “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.” He went on to say “we will not close” either because Catholic hospitals have an obligation to serve patients for non-abortion activities.
Imagine news reports of doctors and nurses being hauled away in handcuffs because they refused to participate in the taking of human life! What a public relations disaster that would be for the radically pro-abortion Obama Administration! The bishops are highly principled, indeed … and they are very smart!
Sue Armacost
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Insurrection must come. During the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party came our independence from the motherland, i.e. Great Britain. Why was the fight for independence necessary? Because our freedoms were be squelched and our rights not respected. We fought to have the right to assemble, the right to free speech and other rights. We fought for those rights under a banner of righteousness that came from God Almighty.
All have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory…we know that from Ephesians. But, we cannot and must not allow our government to take a position that endorses sinful killing. Furthermore, that same government cannot be allowed to sweep away an individual’s personal conviction to not kill an unborn child by directing him or her to perform an abortion in the very hospital instituion that they have chosen to work at. I am not Catholic, I attend a Baptist church. But I stand beside those who would keep hospital doors open while defying a B. Hussein Obama decision to force abortions through FOCA at institutions run by the church or supported by religious instituions.
Thank you, Roman Catholic bishops, for your conviction to principle.
Dick Kendall
Appleton, WI
Comment by Dick Kendall — February 16, 2009 @ 3:57 pm