Over at Pursuing Holiness they discuss this issue and lay out a strong argument that – unintended or not – the passage of Obamacare as currently crafted with its insidious, pro-abortion provisions would force Catholic hospitals to close:
Make no mistake: the Catholic hospitals will either bend to the will of the federal government, or they will close. The Archdiocese of Boston would not comply with new mandatory gay adoption laws; the passage of the law resulted in the closure of the largest adoption agency in New England. It is ludicrous to believe that the Obama adminstration is not fully aware of the consequences of what they are doing, and of the Catholic Church’s track record. They know that they are putting the Church into a position where they will be forced to close the hospitals. And if they’re forced to close, they’ll re-open as abortion-providing facilities, quite possibly government owned.
At least if the Bishops are willing to commit civil disobedience, it will take a few years to duke this out in the court sytem, and possibly by then we’ll have a new Congress and/or President which will make this moot. In the meantime, now is the time for Christians of all denominations to pray. Pray for President Obama’s change of heart on this issue, pray for wisdom and strength for the Bishops who will decide how to respond to this attack, and that America will rise up in support of a culture of life and religious freedom.
As Emanuel likes to say, “never let a good crisis go to waste”, and one of the things the pro-abortion fanatics have long desires is to force hospitals, all hospitals, to provide abortion services. The reason for this is two-fold:
1. There are many areas of the country where an abortion cannot be obtained because there aren’t any doctors so incompetent that murder is all they can accomplish.
2. Pro-abortion fanatics want us soaked in the blood of innocents. Hyperbole? Not really – if the pro-abortion people can get more and more people guilty of the crime of abortion, they’ll have an ever larger constituency for their cause.
Fight and pray, fight and pray – stand in the front ranks, battling for life. We can stop this.
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