Direct Attack on the Catholic Church
July 7th, 2010 . by johnA direct attack against the very “soul” of the Catholic Church in the United States has been mounted by the ACLU. On July 1, 2010 the ACLU sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid saying
We write to inform you about potential violations of the Emergency
Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd,
and the Conditions of Participation of Medicare and Medicaid (COP), 42
C.F.R. § 482.13, by religious hospitals that refuse to provide emergency
reproductive health care. Religiously affiliated hospitals are not exempt
from complying with these laws, and cannot invoke their religious status to
jeopardize the health and lives of pregnant women seeking medical care. To
the contrary, the federal laws mentioned above protect patients’ right to
receive emergency reproductive health care. The government
unquestionably has a significant interest in ensuring that these laws are
enforced in order to protect women’s lives and their health. We therefore
ask you to not only investigate the matters discussed herein and take
appropriate action under the above-mentioned laws, but that you also clarify
in the appropriate CMS program manual, and issue a transmittal, that
denying emergency reproductive health care violates federal law.Religiously affiliated hospitals across the country inappropriately and
unlawfully deny pregnant women emergency medical care.
As I read the letter it became obvious that the only hospitals in America that the ACLU have a problem with are “Catholic-owned” hospitals. Now I will agree that anyone who reads the ACLU letter will be horrified at the examples given – there are 3. Three patients out of millions that more than 500 Catholic hospitals around the country provide medical care to. The ACLU wants to shut down these hospitals or force them to perform abortions. My guess is the ACLU would much prefer the hospitals be closed – another Catholic institution out of the way. This is extremely dangerous and is the direct result of Catholics in our Congress and Catholics in our population who do not believe that what the Church teaches is true and who refuse to stand up for their faith over the immediate rewards offered by the satanic forces who are at work in these matters.
What is in peril here is not simply the Catholic Hospital but in point of fact Freedom of Religion. Catholic hospitals are Catholic for a reason and one of those reasons has to do with the sanctity of all life and the belief that the killing of an unborn child is an intrinsic evil that cannot be condoned. The ends do not justify the means – one may not commit an evil in order that a good may be the outcome. This is a religious belief the Church has taught consistently. If the ACLU has its way this is the death knell for freedom of religion in the United States, but more specifically the destruction of the Catholic Church as an authoritative moral voice in the public square.
Let me get something off my chest — I don’t believe for a moment that the ACLU has the best interests of our Republic in mind, never mind our Constitution. I believe, in fact, that they are interested in just the opposite – the tearing down of the Republic, the United States of America, and the literal shredding of our Constitution. As a part of that agenda the eradication of religious freedom seems to be high on their task list. My sense of the ACLU and its members is that they are virtually all part of or associated closely with the Progressive movement and the Progressive twin, the Socialist/Marxist/Communist whatever you wanna call ‘em folks. The ACLU a danger to America and to the Catholic Church. What the ACLU is doing is also what most, if not all, the Obama administration officials are looking to accomplish – the transformation of our country into something you won’t recognize as America.
Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!
(H/T RealCatholicTv.com)
