FOX NEWS: "Freedom of Choice Act" Means Goodbye to Catholic Hospitals
“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.” –Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007
Planned Parenthood, the country’s largest provider of abortions, must have been profoundly disappointed when the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), the bill so enthusiastically endorsed by Barack Obama — designed to broaden both the scope and the availability of abortions — went nowhere.
The FOCA bill, which was originally sponsored by Congressional Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Barbara Boxer – and co-sponsored by Senators Jon Corzine, Patty Murray, Frank Lautenberg, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell, Diane Feinstein, Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski – was an attempt to “codify Roe v. Wade†by repealing former President Bush’s ban on federally funded abortions.
If passed, FOCA would have pretty much invalidated every restriction on abortion nationwide, including parental-notification laws, informed-consent laws, and bans on the late-term procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion. Republicans and sensible Democrats did not have any real interest in it, and, fortunately, that bill was sent back to Committee and was never voted on.
That should have been the end of it.
A new version of FOCA, however, is back. As reported by Fox News contributor Father Jonathan Morris, FOCA, like a mutating virus, has been newly re-packaged and is just as insidious. Father Morris, interviewed on Sunday Morning’s program Fox and Friends, described the main difference between the old bill and the new one: The new version of FOCA now mandates that, if passed, abortion coverage must be paid for by taxpayers, regardless of what their personal stand may be on abortion. This new version of FOCA is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Father Morris outlined the nefarious consequence that would result from passage of the new version of the FOCA bill: the inevitable closure of more than 1,000 Catholic and independent hospitals. These hospitals, generally located in low-income areas and fulfilling a great need by serving the poorest members of society, are currently resigned to accept federal funding in order to remain financially sound. The passage of the FOCA bill would attach strings to that funding, which would, essentially, force those hospitals to perform abortions and other procedures which are anathema to them, such as partial birth abortions, forced sterilizations, and euthanasia.
Losing these hospitals would be no small matter. Currently, Catholic hospitals treat 92 million patients per year (accounting for 20% of all admissions) and employ 525,193 full-time and 233,934 part-time workers. It would seem obvious that the advantages of keeping these hospitals viable far outweigh any benefits that the passage of the FOCA bill would bestow upon the likes of Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills actively supporting the measure, but these days, under the Obama administration, nothing is as it seems.
There is NO WAY that the Messiah would allow those hospitals to close. He will merely seize them through eminent domain so that the killing can continue unchecked.
And wait until you see what he has in mind for the “pro-choice” generation when they become inconvenient.
Change (What) You Can Believe In.
Just as Obama has come openly against private charity (taking tax advantages away is solid evidence) seeking to force all charity under his government control, he also seeks to get rid of private (Catholic?) healthcare. That which is his way of controlling all things must be destroyed, by either assimilating it into the Obamacare system, or destroying it as potential competition.
Nothing would destroy Catholic hospitals quicker than attempting to force Catholics to do abortions (the reverse of making vampires drink holy water)
The man is fundamentally anti-life in his very being. No one can be cold hearted pro-infanticide and still proclaim the right to being moral about much of anything.
What is frightening is the large number of people who are worshippers of this pretend messiah. I am remindeed of the large crowds with tears in their eyes in near worship before.
The new bill is dangerous also in areas of end of life issue with language that give the state far too much say in your final care, including forced counseling of wiving wills etc. Why, If not to browbeat and bully old folks to choose early death?
We are dangerously close to pre-war Nazi Germany, where, even before the gas oven plague, they slaughtered their own incovenient folks.
The real tragedy is the fact that the majority of “Catholics” in the House and Senate are the most rabid pro-baby-killing members of Congress.
My state senators (both of them), Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, (both pretend Catholics), are two of the most anti-human members of the Senate. I can count on them to vote in favor of any bill that serves to destroy human life and give the government more power over the people.
Catholic hospitals have been the longest running hospitals in the nation serving millions of people. Obama can’t stand that fact nor the fact that people who do contribute to charity are mostly low-income people who don’t contribute to the charities he likes. So forcing taxpayers to fund the organizations he likes such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL kills two birds with one stone. Eliminate Catholic charities while funding human/body/soul-killing organizations.
The pro-abortionist’s in Congress always have a back-door method to fund their madness.
Their hatred of humanity in favoring of saving the planet is also evident in the appropriations bills going forward in Congress.
The Financial appropriation bill will use taxpayer dollars to fund abortions for Washington, D.C. women.
The STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS BILL states that “Funds made available for family planning and reproductive health should be used to support programs in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species.”
why to use terms like killing babies ?
why to use terms like must or this is life ?
im sure this old argument could easily discuss in
old fashion way :
put the leaders in 1 room for 1 week – they will come out with some
answer.
Ann
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