The possible agenda is there: If women are afraid of dying during childbirth, they may be more likely to contracept or abort.

“All the deaths occur during the last three months of pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and one week after—so what on earth is a birth control pill or a condom going to do?”

Sometimes women choose to have their tubes tied after a birth—especially if future births are likely to be dangerous. This is easily combined with a C-section. Perhaps the Canadian government prefers to grant money to organizations that also provide this option to their patients. MaterCare would also refuse to counsel recovering patients on all the birth control options available to them after they are healed. I suspect these are the issues.

Leftwing ideaology is evil. Hate the sin love the sinner.  Leftwing propaganda is the enemy of humanity.  The enemy of our salvation is the author of leftwing thought.

Then, too, there are a lot of folks who think there are too many people, especially dark people; so that dark mothers are dying may be considered a plus on their scorecard. 
Or is that uncharitable?

One more step toward rendering the health care professions Katholischenfrei.

When I was a medical catholic volunteer in UGANDA, the district public hospital had the theatre’s roof punched, but drug store shelves plenty of condoms. Tha catholic hospital was fre access, furnished of antibiotics, and overwhelmed of patients. Which one was
fitting?

That’s what happens when these organizations take the chocoloate-  the government’s money. In the US, they hand back the power that the government surrendered by making them tax-free - the power to destroy by cutting off the lifeblood.  We need to do this ourselves.  Catholics may be stingy in giving to their parish, especially if they think it’s going to be p’d away in diocesan lawsuits, but if we drummed up this kind of thing, with specific, transparent reporting, we could keep our charities open without Caesar’s largesse.

Mark could you explain just what the Canadian connection is here?  Is MaterCare Canadian?  Did I miss something?

Wait!  Found the link…

The fistula thing is what makes me laugh with disgust.  It’s healthcare that makes a difference.  Yet the planned parenthood crowd wants to send hand-held aspirators instead. 

“What man, if his daughter asks him for an egg will give her a stone?  Or if she asks for a fish, will give her a scorpion?  If you, then, who are sinful know how to give good things to your children, how much more so your heavenly Father?” 

This is going to result in a swift, devastating and painful judgment.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Mark!  I just found their website and this Catholic Canadian will be giving MaterCare a donation herself. 

You’re bang on S. Murphy—these government dollars are really “free”, are they?

Last November, a 27-year-old woman was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. She was 11 weeks pregnant with her fifth child, and she was gravely ill. According to a hospital document, she had “right heart failure,” and her doctors told her that if she continued with the pregnancy, her risk of mortality was “close to 100 percent.”

  The patient, who was too ill to be moved to the operating room much less another hospital, agreed to an abortion. But there was a complication: She was at a Catholic hospital.

The hospital officials knew that church doctrine would have them let both mother and child die. But they searched for an exception and thought they found one: “Sister Margaret McBride, who was an administrator at the hospital as well as its liaison to the diocese, gave her approval” for a lifesaving abortion. The woman survived, but the nun was excommunicated.

A nun who saved a woman’s life was excommunicated. Many of the priests implicated in sex abuse scandals—priests accused of child rape—have not been excommunicated. The church devoted time and money to the nun’s case, while sparing the priests.

And the governing bodies in charge of these decisions are walking the halls of Congress, pushing for policies that “protect life” by ruining the lives of women and children.

O Sullivan “Nobody ever, EVER, expects the Spanish Inquisition.”

Abp. Dolan, Abp. Chaput, George Weigel, Mark Shea, Chris Smith of NJ, Fr. Pavone, the Pastor and Parochial Vicar of my parish; are we getting close to 10 yet?  Fr. Groeshel, Scott Hahn - we have a minyan!

But Keep at it Abe, our margin is as thin as paper.

FRESH revelations about the Catholic Church’s involvement in a host of human rights abuses in Spain under Franco’s dictatorship and even later have surfaced in the last week, causing outrage in a country fast distancing itself from its Catholic past.

The latest scandal centres on baby-trafficking by Church, government officials and clinics over several decades. As many as 300,000 babies may have been the victims of a practise that saw infants taken from “morally or economically deficit” parents and sold to couples deemed more acceptable.
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Typically, doctors and nuns would tell mothers their babies had been born dead, or that they had died shortly after birth. Then they would sell the newborns to adoptive parents and forge all official documents. After being told their newborns died, mothers would usually request to see their children, but doctors and midwives would deter them.
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Journalists found a baby’s corpse in a fridge, leading to rumours that bodies were kept to show parents who doubted their own child had died. A former clinic employee recently confirmed that babies were illegally given up for adoption.

New Fiction from the Author of “The Deputy!”

In a surprising return from the dead, Rolf Hochhuth turns his attention to Spain in the barbaric priest-ridden times before civilization came in the form of socialist rule.

Grafting accounts from enlightened contemporaneous fiction, Hochhuth delivers a crippling blow to the spurious authority of Rome, corrupt bishops and perverted priests.  Follow along as the trail of depravity unwinds, like the way to Campostelo.

And coming soon: “the well-worn path between the rectory and the convent,” “aristocratic priests sell out the poorest of the poor,” and “the 21st century - priest pederasty defined.”

Look for these titles, and other Hochhuth favorites in an infernal cavity near you.

“All the deaths occur during the last three months of pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and one week after — so what on earth is a birth control pill or a condom going to do?”
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Hello?!? The pill and the condom PREVENT pregnancy, so a woman won’t have a third trimester, labor, or postpartum. If she could plan her pregnancy instead of letting it happen randomly, she will have some control over her life.
You people are sure you know what others want. Is there anyone out there that can say they have a relative who died from complications of pregnancy?

Johnno, as a woman, I think I can say with certainty that if I were 24 or more weeks pregnant and in danger of dying, I would definitely want actual medical care to save my life as opposed to someone telling me that I should have bought a condom instead.

Also, the Catholic Church is full of sinners.  This is no secret.  This has no bearing on the veracity of her teaching.  In fact, the abuses and evils that haters love to quote are a direct result of someone’s choosing to do the opposite of what the Church teaches.

Finally, only a Jesuit or a consequentialist conservative would argue that morality and theology must be defined by the extremely rare case or possibility of a case.  The nun in question should have simply admitted that she did evil so that good could come of it, but that as a sinner, she could not find another solution in the time frame given.  She should have repented and asked forgiveness.  Then we could have gotten on with the business of finding good solutions and alternatives to the dilemma posed by the health of the mother/life of the child scenario so that future mothers would not have to make that awful decision.

Wow, Stephanie, you mean pro-life doesn’t necessarily mean frowning middle aged men in grey suits trying to control a (younger) woman’s “sexuality?”

How dare these African women have babies, when they obviously can’t afford beemers to drive them around in!

Some “enlightened” person will have to impose appropriate discipline: like capital punishment, for the crime of “propagating the species without prior permission.”

It’s a personally hideous thought!