Bishop Walker Nick?less of Sioux City, Iowa issued a mes?sage on Tues?day that has pro-life Catholics cheering.
The upshot? No health care ?reform? is bet?ter than a restruc?tur?ing that forces abor?tion fund?ing or mandates.
?First and most impor?tant, the Church will not accept any leg?is?la?tion that man?dates cov?er?age, pub?lic or pri?vate, for abor?tion, euthana?sia, or embry?onic stem-cell research,? Nick?less writes. ?We refuse to allow our own parish, school, and dioce?san health insur?ance plans to be forced to include these?evils.?
The bishop is also con?cerned about the effect a government-run health care sys?tem would have on the thou?sands of Amer?i?cans who are pro-life med?ical workers.
?As a corol?lary of this, we insist equally on ade?quate pro?tec?tion of indi?vid?ual rights of con?science for patients and health care providers not to be made com?plicit in these evils. A so-called reform that imposes these evils on us would be far worse than keep?ing the health care sys?tem we now have,? Nick?less?added.
The bishop also sought to make it clear that ?the Catholic Church does not teach that ?health care? as such, with?out dis?tinc?tion, is a nat?ural right? and ?the Catholic Church does not teach that gov?ern?ment should directly pro?vide health care.?
But when it comes to polit?i?cal rights, Nick?less says rationing can?t be a com?po?nent of any plan Con?gress approves.
?We reject the rationing of care. Those who are sick?est should get the most care, regard?less of age, sta?tus, or wealth,? he?says.
Nick?less describes how abor?tion actu?ally makes it more dif?fi?cult to allow uni?ver?sal access to health care.
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?With?out a grow?ing pop?u?la?tion of youth, our grow?ing pop?u?la?tion of retirees is out?strip?ping our dis?tri?b?u?tion sys?tems,? he explains. ?In a cul?ture of death such as we have now, tax?a?tion to redis?trib?ute costs of med?ical care becomes both unjust and unsustainable.?
He says the main bill in the House, HR 3200 ?does not meet? the pro-life stan?dards he and his col?leagues have set?forth.
?As Car?di?nal Justin Rigali has writ?ten for the USCCB Sec?re?tariat of Pro-life Activ?i?ties, this bill cir?cum?vents the Hyde amend?ment (which pro?hibits fed?eral funds from being used to pay for abor?tions) by draw?ing fund?ing from new sources not cov?ered by the Hyde amend?ment, and by cre?atively manip?u?lat?ing how fed?eral funds cov?ered by the Hyde amend?ment are accounted,? he explained.
Arti?cle source: LifeNews.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifenews/newsfeed/~3/1kQO4yTySWE/
Tags: Christian, Political, Prolife
Source: http://empowershop.net/catholic-bishop-in-iowa-abortion-most-important-voting-issue-10549.htm
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