Colorado Springs Bishop says he does not and would not permit Plan B in Catholic hospitals

"How could you continue to call yourself Catholic if you were doing things that were contrary to Catholic teaching even if you were being forced by the state to do them"? - Bishop Sheridan

Colorado Springs Bishop says he does not and would not permit Plan B in Catholic hospitals...

"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 October 10, 2007:

Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan spoke with LifeSiteNews.com yesterday about the use of the morning after pill in Catholic hospitals. Despite the fact that Catholic hospitals in many US dioceses have been administering the drug in rape cases, the recent decision of the Bishops of Connecticut to permit the morning after pill Plan B to be administered in Catholic hospitals in cases of rape even without an ovulation test has reignited the debate.

With all the debate over Plan B only one thing is certain. That is that no one can be absolutely certain that when administered after sexual intercourse (with or without an ovulation test) Plan B will not cause an abortion.

And that uncertainty is the basis for opposition to Plan B being administered even to rape victims at any Catholic hospitals under the oversight of Bishop Sheridan.

Asked if he would forbid the pill to be administered even in cases of rape, Bishop Sheridan noted the uncertainty around the action of the pill and said, "My opinion on moral questions is to err on the side of safety, rather in the other direction."

In his diocese, explained the Colorado Springs bishop, Catholic hospitals do not and are not required by state law to administer nor even to refer for the abortifacient morning after pill. "I've been told by our Catholic hospitals that it's not given out, not administered there," he said.

In Connecticut, Massachusetts and California, state law overrules freedom of religion and conscience and requires administration of the abortifacient pills without exemption for Catholic hospitals. Other states are currently considering similar legislation, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

Asked what he would do if pushed on the issue by the state, Bishop Sheridan indicated that he would likely rather have the Church pull out of hospitals than compromise the faith. "If I personally were being pushed on this and had to make the decision by myself, I'd have to question whether or not we could continue that particular ministry if the state were going to force us to act contrary to Catholic teaching, to the Catholic conscience," he told LifeSiteNews.com.

Bishop Sheridan concluded, "How could you continue to call yourself Catholic if you were doing things that were contrary to Catholic teaching even if you were being forced by the state to do them."

The Colorado Springs Bishop's speaking publicly on the subject given the controversy raging in Connecticut is very courageous. However long-time LifeSiteNews.com readers will recall Bishop Sheridan as a man of courage even when under very public scrutiny.

CNN grilled the Bishop in 2004 after he wrote a pastoral letter noting that not only anti-life and anti-family politicians but also the Catholics who vote for them commit a grave sin and thus may not receive Communion until they repent.

CNN's Anderson Cooper concluded his hostile questioning of Bishop Sheridan quoting a Catholic who accused the Bishop of driving "Catholics away from the Church". Cooper then quoted falling stats on Church attendance asking, "Can the church afford this?"

Bishop Sheridan responded that "the truth is sometimes divisive." He concluded, "It's an unfortunate consequence, not one intended, but the alternative is to say nothing and, if I do that, then I jeopardize my own salvation, I believe, because as a bishop I have a mandate to speak the truth."

See related coverage:
Connecticut Bishops Allow Plan B in Catholic Hospitals for Rape - Catholic Medical Association Opposed
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/sep/07092807.html

Bishop Remains Firm on Evil of Voting For Pro-Abortion Politicians During CNN Grilling
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/may/04051706.html

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Vatican stated in 2000 "the absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill" (see the full Vatican statement here: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdli...

To express concerns to the Vatican:

Pontifical Academy for Life:
pav@acdlife.va

To email the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith:
Cardinal William Levada
E-mail: cdf@cfaith.va

"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 6, 1987

“Permissiveness shall not be accepted by your God. Sin is sin; there is no compromise for sin. Mortal sin is a grievous offense to the Eternal Father. The Commandments shall be followed without permissiveness.” – Jesus, November 21, 1977

Vatican: “The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception”

"The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception, that is, of every marital act intentionally rendered unfruitful. This teaching is to be held as definitive and irreformable."

- "Vademecum for Confessors: Concerning Some Aspects of the Morality of Conjugal Life," #4, Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family, March 1, 1997.

"From the ethical standpoint the same 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."

- “Statement on the So-Called Morning After Pill,” Vatican Pontifical Council for Life, October 31, 2000.

"It is not possible to anesthetize the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is to stop an embryo implanting or to cut short someone's life... I invite your federation [of pharmacists] to consider conscientious objection which is a right that must be recognized for your profession so you can avoid collaborating, directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral aims, for example abortion or euthanasia..."

- Pope Benedict XVI, address to Catholic Pharmacists, October 29, 2007

On June 5, 1987, Pope John Paul II warned clergy and theologians of their grave obligation to faithfully transmit the Church’s teaching on contraception: “A grave responsibility derives from this: those who place themselves in open conflict with the law of God, authentically taught by the Church, guide spouses along a false path. The Church’s teaching on contraception does not belong to the category of matter open to free discussion among theologians. Teaching the contrary amounts to leading the moral consciences of spouses into error.”

- "The Church's teaching on contraception is not a matter for free discussion among theologians," L'Osservatore Romano, July 6, 1987, p. 12.

On September 17, 1983, Pope John Paul II told priests in Rome that “contraception is to be judged objectively so profoundly unlawful as never to be, for any reason, justified. To think or to say the contrary is equal to maintaining that, in human life, situations may arise in which it is lawful not to recognize God as God.”

- quotation from “The Papal Talk of 17 Sept.,” The [Hartford] Catholic Transcript, David Q. Liptak, January 20, 1984.

"In fact, just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, with particular reason, he has no such dominion over his generative faculties as such, because of their intrinsic ordination towards raising up life, of which God is the principle. 'Human life is sacred,' Pope John XXIII recalled; 'from its very inception it reveals the creating hand of God.'
"In conformity with these landmarks in the human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again declare that the direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth.
"Equally to be excluded, as the teaching authority of the Church has frequently declared, is direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary, whether of the man or of the woman. Similarly excluded is every action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible."

- Pope Paul VI, encyclical Humanae Vitae, July 25, 1968 (#13-14).

Asked what he would do if pushed on the issue by the state, Bishop Sheridan indicated that he would likely rather have the Church pull out of hospitals than compromise the faith. "If I personally were being pushed on this and had to make the decision by myself, I'd have to question whether or not we could continue that particular ministry if the state were going to force us to act contrary to Catholic teaching, to the Catholic conscience," he told LifeSiteNews.com.

Bishop Sheridan concluded, "How could you continue to call yourself Catholic if you were doing things that were contrary to Catholic teaching even if you were being forced by the state to do them?"

- “Colorado Springs Bishop Says He Does Not and Would Not Permit Plan B in Catholic Hospitals”, LifeSiteNews.com, October 10, 2007.

The truth is that there is absolutely no doubt about how the Plan B pills work. Just ask the manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals, whose product insert states: "This product works mainly by preventing ovulation (egg release). It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg (joining of sperm and egg) or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus (implantation)." (My italics.) It's that third item that makes Plan B an abortion-causing drug. The same can be said for every chemical contraceptive.

- Human Life International President: "Plan A: Keep 'Plan B' out of Catholic hospitals", LifeSiteNews.com,
October 5, 2007.

“The Vatican did not need to invent any new teaching on the Plan B pills because these pills fall into the category of abortifacient contraception, pure and simple. The consistent teaching of our Church on abortion applies here.”

- Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, quotation from “A ‘seriously flawed’ decision in Connecticut,” The [Los Angeles] Tidings, October 19, 2007.

"Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection."

- Pope John Paul II, encyclical The Gospel of Life, #73, March 25, 1995.

"The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed."

- Pope John Paul II, encyclical The Gospel of Life, #62, March 25, 1995.

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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
"The torment that will be visited upon those who murder the innocent shall be eternal damnation and feasting their eyes upon the murdered souls." - Our Lady, May 10, 1972

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…

Plan B abortifacient:

Human Life International President: "Plan A: Keep 'Plan B' out of Catholic hospitals"
https://www.tldm.org/News11/Keep'PlanB'OutOfCatholicHospitals.htm

Catholic Media Coalition asks Connecticut Bishops to rescind approval of abortifacient Plan B
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CatholicMediaCoalitionConnecticutBishops.htm

Bishops of Connecticut: Are you willing to risk murder?
https://www.tldm.org/News11/BishopsWillingToRiskMurder.htm

U.S. Catholic Health Association giving flawed advice on morning after pill to Catholic hospitals
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CHAGivingFlawedAdvice.htm

UK Cardinal standing firm in his refusal to allow a famous Catholic hospital to make abortion referrals or provide contraceptives
https://www.tldm.org/News11/UKCardinalCatholicHospital.htm

Point man for Connecticut Bishops on Plan B 'emergency contraception' totally confused on issue
https://www.tldm.org/News11/PointManForCTBishopsTotallyConfused.htm

Connecticut bishops allow Plan B in Catholic hospitals for rape--Catholic Medical Association opposed
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ConnecticutBishopsAllowPlanBinCatholicHospitalsForRape.htm

Connecticut bishops should reconsider: Russian roulette with the lives of babies is unacceptable
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ConnecticutBishopsRussianRoulette.htm

Online video: Noted endocrinologist explains how the birth control pill causes abortion
https://www.tldm.org/News11/BirthControlPillCausesAbortion.htm

Plan B manufacturer admits morning after pill can cause death of an embryo
https://www.tldm.org/News9/ContraceptionDeathOfEmbryo.htm

Advisory doctor to FDA confirms morning-after pill acts as abortifacient
https://www.tldm.org/News9/ContraceptionFDAadvisor.htm

Artificial contraception:

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

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

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

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

Abortion Pill, RU-486, kills 5 women in one month
https://www.tldm.org/news8/AbortionPill.RU-486KillsWomen.htm

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? 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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