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Catholic hospital mergers put women's health at risk .. bit of ..
Sun May 26, 2013 at 04:00 PM PDT

"Still, the worrying national trend is creating problems for all parties. Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, which represents the nation's roughly 600 Catholic hospitals, said of Americans' increasingly dependence on her organization's facilities, "That is a constant challenge. It's a challenge we take very seriously." But for American women, the challenge of getting reproductive care isn't just serious; it could be very dangerous. AS Jill C. Morrison, of the National Women's Law Center worried, the new restrictions mean "women simply don't know what they're getting."

If, that is, they can get it at all. As Lois Uttley, director of MergerWatch explained last year, "There are a lot of rural places that now have only a Catholic hospital." But as the news from Seattle, Houston, Austin and elsewhere suggest, that is increasingly true of both small towns and big cities. And that means that the health and lives of millions of American women will be not just at the mercy of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Supreme Court, but the United States Council of Catholic Bishops as well."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/26/1211484/-Catholic-hospital-mergers-put-women-s-health-at-risk?detail=hide

those are the last two paragraphs in a lengthy and very informative post .. this afternoon i mentioned
to 3 Australian ladies how the Catholic position re abortion was gaining traction in the USA .. the reactions
of two were "Oh no!" .. the 3rd a nurse smiled wanfully while saying, "Yeah. I have come up against that before".