CATHOLIC CHARITIES, VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY SUPPORTING ABORTION-PROVIDING HEALTHCARE PLAN


Three of the top lay Catholic organizations have divorced themselves from Catholic teaching by supporting the Obama health-care plan, which would foster a culture of mandatory abortion coverage, contraceptive services, and permissive sex education, euthanasia and eugenics.

Catholic Charities USA, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Health Association are joining together to push the current version of the plan through Congress.

"There is no social justice in rationing charity," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Millions of taxpayers will be forced to subsidize abortion, contraception, euthanasia and bureaucratic denial of health care to the poorest of the poor."

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Charities USA sent out an action alert asking members to contact their legislators immediately:

We must maintain momentum for health care reform efforts with calls and emails supporting health care reform immediately. ... Your members of Congress need to hear from you that you support health care reform, and that the system needs to be reformed now.
The Catholic Health Association put together a YouTube video showing people displaying messages such as “I can’t wait for health-care reform” and “We can’t wait until the signing ceremony.”

"All these organizations claim to be faithful to Catholic social teaching – which unambiguously and passionately puts respect for human personhood at the core of all other social and charitable works,” Brown pointed out. “Yet these same organizations are undermining the very foundation they exist to protect and foster the dignity of human persons and the sanctity of their right to life.'

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Catholic Health Association: I Can't Wait ... For Health Reform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnhuSd6Uiw

Catholic Charities USA: Study Sheds Light on Role of Abortion Drug (16 June 2008)
http://capwiz.com/catholiccharitiesusa/issues/alert/?alertid=13746156

Society of St. Vincet de Paul: Link to Catholic Health Association YouTube
http://www.svdpusa.org/VoiceofthePoor/tabid/167/ItemId/164/language/en-US/Default.aspx



~ Via Katy Walker.
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Comments

  1. Anonymous7/29/09, 7:27 PM

    Sounds like the "catholic" hospital in Boston before the Bishop got involved.

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  2. Storm'n Norm'n8/2/09, 5:29 PM

    Thanks...
    Re-posted here: http://normanhooben.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-guess-hell-just-froze-over-catholics.html

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  3. Anonymous8/18/09, 4:51 PM

    So, how do Catholics organize to oppose this "reform"? Are there any groups? Plans for protests? Plans to sit together at the town meetings? (I feel like Ben Stein -- "Anyone..." "Anyone..."?

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