{"id":11992,"date":"2010-12-23T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2010-12-23T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:56:47","slug":"aclu-catholic-hospitals-have-been-refusing-to-provide-reproductive-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11992","title":{"rendered":"ACLU: Catholic Hospitals Have Been Refusing To Provide Reproductive Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/22\/AR2010122206219.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, saying the refusal by religiously affiliated hospitals to provide abortion and other services was becoming an increasing problem.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the ACLU cited the case of St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, which was stripped of its Catholic status Tuesday because doctors performed an abortion on a woman who had developed a life-threatening complication. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The letter was a follow-up to a complaint the ACLU sent to CMS in July asking for a federal investigation of similar problems at Catholic hospitals across the country, including refusals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims or perform abortions on women having miscarriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for St. Joseph&#8217;s! (They&#8217;re not actually funded by the diocese, incidentally.)<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church should get out of the hospital business. Their religion forbids them from providing necessary care; that means they shouldn&#8217;t be involved with running hospitals at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, saying the refusal by religiously affiliated hospitals to provide abortion and other services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11992\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-crossposted-on-tada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}