Nicholas D. Kristoff writes in the New York Times that prominent bishop Thomas Olmsted has stripped “St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix of its affiliation with the Roman Catholic diocese....
>>>Nicholas D. Kristoff writes in the New York Times that prominent bishop Thomas Olmsted has stripped “St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix of its affiliation with the Roman Catholic diocese.
The hospital’s offense? It had terminated a pregnancy to save the life of the mother. The hospital says the 27-year-old woman, a mother of four children, would almost certainly have died otherwise.
Bishop Olmsted initially excommunicated a nun, Sister Margaret McBride, who had been on the hospital’s ethics committee and had approved of the decision. That seems to have been a failed attempt to bully the hospital into submission, but it refused to cave and continues to employ Sister Margaret. Now the bishop, in effect, is excommunicating the entire hospital — all because it saved a woman’s life.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/opinion/27kristof.html?src=me&ref=general
