In the United States, Catholic health care institutions and networks are guided by the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.” This document, recently updated in 2018, lays out a clear vision for Catholic health care, noting that Catholic health care is founded on a concern “to respect the sacredness of every human life from the moment of conception until death.” Clearly, this puts Catholic health care on a collision course with the anti-life secularism that guides so many of our public institutions, including universities.
For example, one battle is happening right now at the University of California (UC), where the Board of Regents recently passed a number of amendments that, if they become finalized, would restrict the university from partnering with hospitals and health care systems that do not provide every procedure that the university deems they should. Naturally, this includes medically unnecessary, and often explicitly harmful procedures and “services” such as abortion, contraception, sterilizations, “sex-change” procedures, and euthanasia...
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