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The Catholic Church obviously opposes abortion because it stymies the production of young boys. From their perspective, a reasonable proposition.

sdaniels7114

All of the many, many Catholic hospitals in and around Boston are in the process of becoming non-affiliated as I understand it; but its a process and its far from complete. That being said, I can say that I just went through a very difficult time with a family member at St Elizabeth's hospital in Brighton and there was a Priest who made himself available for last rites and other spiritual aspects of that situation, but neither he nor anyone from the church made any effort at even suggesting, let alone encouraging or requiring strict Catholic doctrine at all. That awful decision was made by my family in consultation with the doctors and while the Priest was always around, he never made any effort at all at pushing the Church's will.

I'm really not a fan of the church at all, but in this case their 'guy' did a fine job at helping my family as best he could.

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khayos

Interesting follow up, I guess the mother's life wasn't in immediate danger, so stripping the hospital was warranted in line with my thinking...

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scout

Normally it would be enough to take a church's word that it is stating the facts as gospel.

khayos

I'm not a Catholic and I was curious because the thread, at the start, made it seem like the child HAD to be aborted to save the mother.

Harry Boy

I thought the same thing.

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