[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Will Barrie Hussein close Catholic Hospitals and pharmacies

[PFLI PharmAid Center]

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 31 Oct 2008 AD #2

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*/'Freedom of Choice Act' Threatens Free Choice of Hospitals
[PFLI comment: Get ready to become a slave employee of the State with no 
freedom of conscience!]
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*Will Obama Close Catholic Hospitals [and Pharmacies]?*

/by John Vennari/

Published in the Philadephia daily Bulletin 
<http://www.newsletterserve.com/link.php?M=199641&N=639&L=480&F=H>, Oct. 
31, 2008

On Oct. 7, 2007, Sen. Barack Obama spoke to the Planned Parenthood 
Action Fund and promised, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign 
the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing I'll do."

What is the Freedom of Choice Act? It is the most sweeping pro-abortion 
legislation ever proposed in the United States.

In a letter dated Sept. 19 to members of Congress, Philadelphia's Justin 
Cardinal Rigali rightly warned:

"Despite its deceptive title, FOCA would deprive the American people in 
all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints 
and regulations on the abortion industry. FOCA would coerce all 
Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax 
dollars. And FOCA would counteract any and all sincere efforts by 
government to reduce abortions in our country.

"The operative language of FOCA is twofold. First it creates a 
'fundamental right' to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy, 
including a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks 
for undefined "health" reasons. No government body at any level would be 
able to "deny or interfere with" this newly created federal right. 
Second, it forbids government at all levels to "discriminate" against 
the exercise of this right "in the regulation or provision of benefits, 
facilities, services, or information." For the first time, abortion on 
demand would be a national entitlement that government must condone and 
promote in all public programs affecting pregnant women," said the cardinal.

It is clear the FOCA raises abortion to what it calls a "fundamental 
right." Yet it is not clear if Catholics realize the threat that Mr. 
Obama poses to the unborn, to believing Catholics in the medical 
profession, and to Catholic hospitals across the nation.

Michael Moses, legal analyst of the United States Council of Catholic 
Bishops called it a "radical measure" that will "go way beyond Roe [vs. 
Wade]." The language is so sweeping that it will wipe out any state's 
"conscience" clause, which is the law that allows hospitals, doctors and 
nurses to abstain from taking part in abortion for reasons of 
conscience. If abortion is a "fundamental right", according to FOCA, 
then every hospital must provide it.

The net result, as one writer noted, is "President Obama and his 
congressional supermajority would force every Christian hospital, doctor 
or nurse to abandon their faith or go out of business." Under FOCA, 
believing Christians could be banned from the hospital industry (and 
apostolate) by federal law.

/CFN Addendum to Bulletin article:/

This aspect of Obama's candidacy has been eclipsed by endless talk about 
the economy.

It is tragic that our own Catholic clergy have not effectively warned 
the people under their charge of this danger. This could be remedied if 
every priest in every diocese  in the country would inform their 
congregations  this Sunday of the grave threat to the lives of the 
unborn, and to the continuance of Catholic hospitals, that an Obama 
presidency poses.

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Please forward to those who need to know this.*

*Also on line at: **www.cfnews.org/ObamaCloseCatholicHospitals.htm* 
<http://www.newsletterserve.com/link.php?M=199641&N=639&L=481&F=H>


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