[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: IL pharmacists win HUGE prelim injunction victory; Chaput on Obamacare....

Tue Aug 25 19:38:27 MDT 2009

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*/_IL PHARMACISTS WIN HUGE PRELIM INJUNCTION VICTORY..._/* 
<http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=3416>
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*Abp. Chaput Steps up Pressure on Obamacare: Funding Abortions not 
'Common Ground'*

By Kathleen Gilbert

DENVER, Colorado, August 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver 
has penned another column <http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/2420> on 
the health care debate, this time slamming efforts to frame President 
Obama's health care legislation as a vehicle for the "common good."

In an editorial titled "U.S. bishops must back Obama" in the U.K.'s 
Tablet last week, the journal claimed 
<http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/13499> that U.S. bishops "have so 
far concentrated on a specifically Catholic issue - making sure 
state-funded health care does not include abortion - rather than the 
more general principle of the common good." 

The journal's editors suggested that the bishops should, instead, join 
forces to help President Obama overcome the "awkward alliance of 
Republicans and conservative Democrats" blocking the bill.  "Through the 
influence they wield as leaders of America's largest Christian 
denomination, they could play a central role in salvaging Mr Obama's 
health-care programme," they suggested.

Archbishop Chaput responded to the article by noting that "abortion is 
not, and has never been, a 'specifically Catholic issue,' and the 
editors know it."  Also, he said, "the growing misuse of Catholic 
'common ground' and 'common good' language in the current health-care 
debate can only stem from one of two sources: ignorance or cynicism."

"No system that allows or helps fund - no matter how subtly or 
indirectly -- the killing of unborn children, or discrimination against 
the elderly and persons with special needs, can bill itself as 'common 
ground.'  Doing so is a lie," said the archbishop.

Chaput published an email written to him by a mother who recounted the 
many health needs of her Down Syndrome daughter, and who said she did 
not trust the Obama administration "to mold policy that accounts for my 
daughter in all of her humanity or puts 'value' on her life."

What most struck him about the email, the bishop said, was the "parental 
distrust" - which he has heard from many parents - that has already 
raised the red flag on the attitude of government-related programs 
toward more vulnerable members of society. 

"Health-care reform is vital.  That's why America's bishops have 
supported it so vigorously for decades.  They still do," he said.  "But 
fast-tracking a flawed, complex effort this fall, in the face of so many 
growing and serious concerns, is bad policy.  It's not only imprudent; 
it's also dangerous."  

Chaput concluded, "If Congress and the White House want to genuinely 
serve the health-care needs of the American public, they need to slow 
down, listen to people's concerns more honestly -- and learn what the 
'common good' really means."

The White House has recently invited several "faith groups" to join in 
its own campaigning to pass the health care reform bill.  In several 
meetings with religious leaders, President Obama has referred to his 
health care overhaul in heavily religious terms, calling on people of 
faith to fight opposition to his legislation as an impediment to "a core 
ethical and moral obligation ... that we look out for one another, that 
I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper."  Several 
left-leaning religious groups have launched 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082014.html> a corresponding 
"40 Days for Health Reform" campaign, borrowing the Judaeo-Christian 
temporal symbol of prayer and fasting in the push to pass the bills 
through Congress. 

Yet faith groups that oppose the killing of the unborn, including the 
U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops, have refused to come aboard the 
campaign despite their support for true heatlh care reform.

Several U.S. bishops, including Bishop Robert Vasa, Bishop R. Walter 
Nickless, and Cardinal Justin Rigali of the USCCB pro-life office have 
come down hard against Obama's abortion-promoting health care 
legislation in recent weeks.  In a column last week, Bishop Nickless 
said that "no health care reform is better than the wrong sort of health 
care reform."

"First and most important, the Church will not accept any legislation 
that mandates coverage, public or private, for abortion, euthanasia, or 
embryonic stem-cell research," Nickless wrote 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081810.html>.  "We refuse to 
be made complicit in these evils, which frankly contradict what 'health 
care' should mean." 

In a Huffington Post column last week on the health care bill, Planned 
Parenthood president Cecile Richards directly attacked 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081910.html> the U.S. 
bishops' opposition to abortion as "hard-line opposition to women's 
rights."

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Obama: 'We are God's Partners in Matters of Life and Death' 
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082014.html

The Gloves are Off: Planned Parenthood President Slams U.S. Bishops on 
Abortion, Healthcare 
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081910.html

Bishop Nickless: "No Health Care Reform is Better than the Wrong Health 
Care Reform"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081810.html

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