The American Civil Liberties Union, the far-left litigation factory, has decided once again to take the wrong side on an issue of constitutional civil liberties. It seems the ACLU is very upset that "religiously affiliated hospitals across the country inappropriately and unlawfully deny pregnant women emergency medical care." Stated more plainly, the ACLU wants Catholic hospitals to provide abortions. Accordingly they have written a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency, complaining that by failing to provide abortions these hospitals have broken the law. The apparent catalyst for the letter was the recent incident in Phoenix in which the local bishop took on a Catholic hospital in his diocese for performing an abortion. (See my earlier post on the subject.)
What I find particularly galling is the ACLU's concern that Catholic hospitals deny women this so-called "right" to abort their children -- a right, by the way, not mentioned or even alluded to in the Constitution -- while at the same time it completely ignores the very explicit right stated in the First Amendment to the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." (To read more about this latest attack on freedom of religion by the ACLU, click here.)
Pray for life...and pray for courage on the part of our bishops.
The occasional, often ill-considered thoughts of a Roman Catholic permanent deacon who is ever grateful to God for his existence. Despite the strangeness we encounter in this life, all the suffering we witness and endure, being is good, so good I am sometimes unable to contain my joy. Deo gratias!
Although I am an ordained deacon of the Catholic Church, the opinions expressed in this blog are my personal opinions. In offering these personal opinions I am not acting as a representative of the Church or any Church organization.
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