The Obami has said he’d be very happy to sign this bill if passed by Congress. One of the mandates of this bill would require all hospitals to provide abortion on demand without any limitations. Is this what Obami voting Catholics were looking for in “change and hope”?

Does FOCA mean an end to Catholic health care?

And the most ludicrous line out of them, surely, was about how, under Obama, Catholic hospitals that provide obstetric and gynecological services might soon be forced to perform abortions or close their doors. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago warned of “devastating consequences� to the health care system, insisting Obama could force the closure of all Catholic hospitals in the country. That’s a third of all hospitals, providing care in many neighborhoods that are not exactly otherwise overprovided for. It couldn’t happen, could it?

You wouldn’t think so. Only, I am increasingly convinced that it could. If the Freedom of Choice Act passes Congress, and that’s a big if, Obama has promised to sign it the second it hits his desk. (Here he is at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund event in 2007, vowing, “The first thing I’d do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing I’d do.�)

I wonder what the Obami will do if all the Catholic Hospitals were to close their doors? Think of all those poor people who wouldn’t be able to get their free health care at the trauma center? All those illegal aliens that the Catholic Church likes to protect and give sanctuary to, where would they go for health care. What a dilemma!

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