Catholic bishops scramble for Plan B as law mandates Connecticut hospitals carry abortifacient rape drug

Catholic bishops scramble for Plan B as law mandates Connecticut hospitals carry abortifacient rape drug...

"The encyclical of Pope Paul VI on birth control is true and must be followed by mankind. There shall be no rationalization of sin.” - Our Lady of the Roses, October 2, 1976

LifeSiteNews reported on March 22, 2007:

Catholic bishops in Connecticut are exploring a possible lawsuit among other options to keep Catholic hospitals from distributing the Plan-B emergency contraceptive to all rape victims under a new law signed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell last Wednesday.

"Two fundamental principles are being violated by this law: respect for human life at all stages, and religious freedom," said Bridgeport Bishop William Lori said in a statement.

The law stipulates the state’s 30 hospitals must offer the abortifacient Plan-B emergency contraceptive to rape victims including Connecticut’s four Catholic hospitals.

Plan B contains a high dosage of hormones found in regular birth control pills, and if taken within 72 hours of sexual intercourse suppress ovulation or causes an abortion by making the womb’s endometrium lining inhospitable for implantation by the newly conceived embryo. Barr manufacturer, maker of Plan-B, inaccurately advertises the drug as non-abortifacient based on a novel definition of pregnancy as beginning at implantation, rather than conception.

In lieu of a conscience clause, lawmakers amended the bill to allow the Catholic hospitals to contract a third party, such as a rape-crisis nurse, to distribute the abortifacient emergency contraceptive, instead of their employees.

However anything short of a conscience clause for Catholic hospitals is unacceptable to Archbishop Henry J. Mansell, leader of the Connecticut bishops, reports the Catholic News Agency. Mansell says he will lead the bishops in an effort to petition lawmakers to make a technical adjustment by June 6 or challenge the law in court if no exception is made to accommodate Catholic values.

The Hartford Archbishop’s threat nevertheless comes at the end of nearly a year of Plan-B compromises that have the Connecticut bishops teetering off an ethical tightrope onto the wrong side of the Catholic Church’s moral teachings as articulated by the Vatican.

For nearly a year, the Catholic hospitals of Connecticut have adopted the "Peoria Protocol", which recommends giving Plan-B to a rape victim tested as not pregnant to suppress ovulation and conception from taking place, but refer her to another hospital or outlet where she can obtain the drug if she is found pregnant. Bishop Lori defended the policy as showing the Catholic hospitals are compassionate to rape victims, but will not participate in procuring abortions.

However, the “Peoria Protocol” has been severely criticized by pro-life groups as a morally dubious compromise that fails to recognize the inherent potential of Plan-B to cause abortions. The Catholic Medical Association, the largest professional organization of Catholic physicians in the U.S., has stated that current tests cannot determine beyond a reasonable doubt that ovulation has not occurred and such tests take days, not hours to measure changes in hormones accurately. Besides, they point out, Plan-B still has a 1 in 10 chance of not preventing ovulation, and any embryo conceived would then starve to death in the womb’s now inhospitable environment.

In light of the medical and ethical considerations, the Vatican has rejected any compromise over distributing the abortifacient Plan-B. The Pontifical Academy for Life states that "the absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill. All who, whether sharing the intention or not, directly co-operate with this procedure are also morally responsible for it." (see the full Vatican statement here: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdli... )

See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:

US Catholic Bishops in Wisconsin and Connecticut Drop Opposition to Abortion-Causing Emergency Contraception
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/apr/07043003.html

Bishops Conferences Admit to Approving Abortifacient Drugs for Rape at Catholic Hospitals
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07050407.html

Connecticut Catholic Hospitals’ Compromise Ends in Abortion Referrals
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06031310.html

U.S. Catholic Hospitals and the Treatment of Rape
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007_docs/UScatholichospitalsand...

We warned you over and over again, through years of visitations upon earth--My Mother going to and fro to warn you, that those who have given themselves over to debasement, by the practice of homosexuality, birth control, abortion and all other aberrations that bring sorrow to My Mother's heart--this must be stopped now. There shall be no excuse accepted in Heaven by the saints, nor by My Mother and I, or the Eternal Father and the Holy Ghost, for what you are doing upon earth now." - Jesus, June 16, 1987

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SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
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DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

TORMENT
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SAINTS CRY OUT FOR PUNISHMENT
"Oh, the greatest of sorrow is upon Our hearts because of the loss of the little ones. Your country, My child, and many countries throughout your world, shall do great penance for the murders of the young, the abortions, the murders being committed in your country. The saints in Heaven cry out for punishment upon a wicked generation. Never in the past, in all the slaughters of history, has there been such wanton killing of the young and the innocent! I say unto you, as your God, you shall be brought down to your knees! You, evil mankind, you shall be cleansed in a bloodbath!” - Jesus, February 1, 1977

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D23 - Abortion PDF
D28 - Hell PDF
D183 - Sex Education PDF
D196 - Life Begins at Conception PDF

Articles…

Pope Paul was prophetic
http://www.tldm.org/news4/contraception.htm

Contraception is intrinsically evil
http://www.tldm.org/news6/contraception.htm

Abortion and the contraceptive mentality
http://www.tldm.org/news4/contraception%5Fabortion.htm

Confirmed deaths caused by RU-486
http://www.tldm.org/News7/AbortionRU-486.htm

Abortion Pill, RU-486, kills 5 women in one month
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Plan B manufacturer admits morning after pill can cause death of an embryo
http://www.tldm.org/News9/ContraceptionDeathOfEmbryo.htm

Advisory doctor to FDA confirms morning-after pill acts as abortifacient
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Outside Links…

Contraception:

Contraception: Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Life, John A. Hardon, S.J.

Is Contraception Gravely Sinful Matter? by Fr Lino Ciccone CM (from L'Osservatore Romano, 4 December 1996)

Faithfulness to the Divine Plan in the Transmission of Life Pope John Paul II's General Audience (8 August 1984)

Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI - Encyclical - On the Regulation of Births (25 July 1968)

Contraception Versus Abortion: A Comparison and Some Implications, By Msgr. Vincent Foy, PhD.

Contraception and Catholic Teaching, Donald DeMarco, Ph.D.

God and the Pill, Terence J. Hughes

Abortifacients, Charles M. Mangan

Abortion::

Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians?Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians? Fr. Matthew Habiger
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SINTOVOT.HTM

“Whoever is not with Me, is against Me,” Archbishop William Levada
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/LEVADA.HTM

Declaration on procured abortion (CDF, November 18, 1974)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFABORT.HTM

The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2EVANG.HTM

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