Conscience & Abortion in California | National Catholic Reporter

Conscience & Abortion in California | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Lets deal with a few errors.  This law does not license  or fund partial birth abortion in any trimester.  The procedure is still illegal in federal law.  While it would be nice if D&C procedures (dismemberment) were also banned, that is the only alternative save induction - which is essentially childbirth, but is an abortion of the child is so premature that it won't survive for long.  As for Hyde, it does not apply to state decisions - nor does the Supreme Court decision that stopped states from having to offer expanded Medicaid or lose their funding.  Finally, late term abortions are almost, if not just plain never elective.  Something is wrong with the child and probably the mother as well (if you are going to object to language that never uses the word child, use the term mother and not woman).  Should California relent and provide the Obamacare alternatives?  Of course.  But I suspect the lawsuit will have a better chance if it does not overplay its hand.  The Bishops should go to the federal HHS, not the legal system.  Grandstanding has given them nothing on this issue except a lot of angry Catholics who are still sore that they put politics before patients when opposing Obamacare (then taking retaliatory action against those Sisters who crossed them.  Even now, I am in no hurry to lend my support to any popular outrage over their failure to urge bipartisanship and compromise - with compromise meaning voting yes at the end - even for Republicans.