St. Gianna Physician's Guild News Update
San Diego, CA - February 10, 2012
Today the Obama Administration's attempt to resolve the outrage surrounding the Birth Control Mandate has simply added insult to injury.
Statement from St. Gianna Physician's Guild:
"Obama's back peddling today on the Birth Control Mandate accomplished nothing. It simply shifts the mandatory requirement from the religious institution/employer to the insurance carrier. Everyone knows that the employer pays a portion of the insurance for all employees. Therefore, at the end of the day there is little change from his original mandate. We stand in solidarity to resist this change. Under the new policy the government will still mandate birth control and religious liberty will continue to be denied."
Stop the Birth Control Mandate petition has reached over 20,000 and continues to grow. http://stopthebirthcontrolmandate.org/
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About St. Gianna Physician's Guild
The mission of St. Gianna Physician's Guild is to unite and encourage Catholic physicians, and those in the health care profession, to promote and defend Catholic principles in a public way by word and example, and to inspire sanctification in their lives.
It seeks to use the influence and expertise of the medical profession to clarify and support sound ethics and morality in the practice of medicine and proclaim them in the public forum. As a way of promoting these values in the personal lives of the faithful, the Guild has a special devotional outreach to promotes and teach about the life and virtues of their patron, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, a dedicated wife, mother and physician who lived and practiced her faith in an exemplar way in the 20th century.
St. Gianna died in 1962 at the age of 39. She sacrificed her life for that of her unborn daughter when confronted with complications caused by a tumor that developed during her pregnancy. St. Gianna was canonized by Pope John Paul II on May 16, 2004.
