DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

FROM CALIFORNIA CATHOLIC DAILY:

"Women's choice was sold out at this hospital"

Takeover of Tarzana hospital by non-profit health group controlled by two orders of nuns means no abortions, no vasectomie's no tubal ligations

When the failing Tarzana Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley was taken over last month by a non-profit health group co-sponsored by the Sisters of Providence and the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, some policies at the hospital had to change in order to bring them in line with Catholic teaching.

Now, reports the Los Angeles Daily News, some physicians at the hospital – now called Providence Tarzana Medical Center – have begun to complain about what they see as a conflict between religion and medicine. "Women's choice was sold out at this hospital," Dr. Brian Fenmore, an obstetrician-gynecologist, told the newspaper in a story published Oct. 25.

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