[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! OH doctor was called in for failed execution, AMA is troubled but not with killing innocents; more...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/25brfs-DOCTORSHELPW_BRF.html?ref=us&pagewanted=print 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/us/25brfs-DOCTORSHELPW_BRF.html?ref=us&pagewanted=print> 

November 25, 2009
National Briefing | Midwest

  Ohio: Doctor's Help Was Sought During Failed Execution Attempt

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

As an execution team tried to find a vein during an effort at lethal 
injection, prison staff members sought help from a doctor --- a move 
generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules --- a 
deposition filed in Federal District Court shows. The doctor, Carmelita 
Bautista, said in the deposition that she had never before been involved 
in an execution. "No, because I am a doctor," she tells a lawyer 
questioning her. "We are supposed to help people who are sick." Dr. 
Bautista said she tried to insert an IV catheter into the foot of the 
inmate, Romell Broom, during the execution attempt on Sept. 15. Gov. Ted 
Strickland postponed it after several hours because a usable vein could 
not be found. The American Medical Association 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/american_medical_association/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
bars members from participating in executions, including anything that 
would "contribute to the ability of another individual to directly cause 
the death of the condemned."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_us/us_ri_bishop_kennedy

  RI bishop asked wayward "catholic" Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Holy Communion

<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03/*http://www.ap.org>

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</nphotos/Rep-Patrick-Kennedy/photo//091122/480/235d8ba1b1a341a980888a794c7b6aa1//s:/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_us/us_ri_bishop_kennedy>AP -- FILE 
- Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, is shown in his office in Providence, 
R.I, in this Aug. 21, 2008 ...
By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer 
-- Sun Nov 22, 6:05 pm ET

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI-- A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick 
Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, 
escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to 
receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for 
abortion rights.

The bishop's attempt to publicly shame Kennedy on his abortion stance 
comes just a few months after the death of his father, Sen. Edward 
Kennedy of Massachusetts. Tobin told The Associated Press that the 
younger Kennedy, who has been in and out of treatment for substance 
abuse, has been acting "erratically."

*/_TRAPPED BUT NOT DEAD..._/* 
<http://pharmphun.blogspot.com/2009/11/mr-houben-is-not-vegetable.html>*/_
*/_Doubtful Mr Houben would survive Obama death panels..._/* 
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Rom-Houben-Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html> 
*/_
*/_TOBIN LAYS THE LAW DOWN TO OBSTINATE SCANDALIZING KENNEDY..._/* 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=513&L=3676&F=H>_/*_/*

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*Bishop Bruskewitz on CCHD: Bishop Morin Was a "Bit Too Dismissive" of 
Concerns*

By Patrick B. Craine

LINCOLN, Nebraska, November 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, 
Nebraska explained in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com today his 
reasons for dropping the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) 
collection in his diocese, saying that CCHD head Bishop Roger Morin was 
"a little bit too dismissive" of concerns brought against the organization.

Bishop Bruskewitz is one of four bishops confirmed 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112305.html> so far to have 
chosen not to take up the collection this year for the national CCHD, 
the USCCB's domestic anti-poverty arm.

"We question the ideology of [CCHD]," the bishop explained in the 
interview, "and ... we are shocked at the scandalous participation with 
the ACORN organization and also the participation with other 
organizations of questionable moral values or standards."

The organization came under fire in the months leading up to this past 
weekend's national collection due to reports documenting how numerous 
grantees have promoted or are promoting activities contrary to Church 
teaching, including abortion, contraception, and same-sex "marriage." In 
fact, the Reform CCHD Now coalition announced 
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112306.html> last week that 
$1.3 million is allocated to questionable groups.  Additionally, critics 
have charged CCHD with favoring "left-leaning" groups in the spirit of 
infamous community organizer Saul Alinksy.

CCHD ceased funding ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations 
for Reform Now), a liberal network of community activism groups, last 
year due to concerns about "financial management" and "political 
partisanship."  CCHD had given ACORN over $7 million in grants during 
the previous ten years.  ACORN came under renewed scrutiny this year 
after sting operations caught several ACORN offices condoning child 
prostitution and sex trafficking. 

"It's so extremely controversial," the bishop said about CCHD.  There 
have been "many negative resonances about it from people throughout the 
diocese and beyond the diocese," he said, adding that the "controversial 
character made it appear that [CCHD] was not effective" in meeting its 
purposes.

His diocese doesn't "rule [CCHD] out entirely," he said, but he would 
only reconsider the collection if there were "some changes in the 
organization itself, or its purposes, or its goals."

The collection "served very little purpose for us," he said, noting that 
the Lincoln diocese has not received funds from CCHD.  "We do have a 
very extensive Catholic Social Services, St. Vincent de Paul activity 
here in the diocese," he said, "which supplies the needs of those who 
are impoverished, of those who need assistance to come out of poverty."

Bishop Roger Morin, chairman of the USCCB's subcommittee on the 
CCHD, delivered <http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09111809.html> 
a passionate plea in defense of the organization at last week's USCCB 
plenary meeting.  While pledging their commitment to ensure grantees' 
respect for Catholic teaching, he decried the "outrageous" allegations 
made by CCHD's critics that it funds pro-abortion or anti-family 
organizations.

But Bishop Bruskewitz expressed displeasure with Bishop Morin's report, 
saying the bishop did not adequately consider the criticisms brought 
against the CCHD.

"I didn't think [the report] took into account sufficiently the 
negatives that have been bantered about with regard to the 
organization," he said.  He said Bishop Morin was "obviously defending 
the organization he had been involved in different areas," and now for 
which he's the chairman.

The report, further, "lacked some of the interests" that concerned 
people "have brought to the fore," he said.  "I think he was perhaps a 
little bit too dismissive of them."

Nevertheless, he maintained that he has "no objection" to people 
supporting CCHD should they choose.  If "people [who] like this 
organization ... want to send money to it, even from my diocese, they 
can," he said.  "But I'm not going to take up the collection."

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Four US Bishops Did Not Take up Collection for Embattled CCHD
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112305.html

$1.3 Million in CCHD Funds Going to Questionable Groups: Reform Coalition
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112306.html

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this Story 
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*_/Four brave bishops say "njet" to CCHD collections... 
<http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09112305>
CCHD Scandal Worsens as groups issue 'Manhattan' declaration... 
<http://www.realcatholictv.net/defundcchd/> /_*
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*_/ Council of Europe demands no rights of conscience for hospitals, 
attacks countries with provisions.... 
<http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09112307> /_*
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*_/ CCHD fundraiser helps 'community organizers' and funding 
abortifacients... 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp%3FidCategory%3D34%26idsub%3D158%26id%3D22613%26t%3DCatholic%2BCampaign%2Bfor%2BHuman%2BDevelopment%2Bin%2BChicago&ct=ga&cd=NRSLVlPuYSk&usg=AFQjCNGeLSb6YozLZUY6DbIMhWeKlAPXhQ> 
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