The Washington Post's Bias on Abortion | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: In 1832, midwives provided abortion services in the home of the patient. Catholic healthcare was not an issue because there was no political stance on abortion. Indeed, it is quite possible that Catholic midwives, like all others, provided the service when necessary (and it was never for economic reasons, because children were work machines in 1832).
The issue of Catholic hospitals refusing abortion services is not a new one, but the fact that they buy failing hospitals in rural America magnifies the lack of abortion services there, including in cases where an abortion would terminate an already doomed pregnancy, which is better for the mother than waiting for the child to die and be stillborn.
The lack of providers is a defacto, not a dejure, abortion ban. If economic policy made abortion decline to just its 27% non-economic base (and if the 10% of necessary abortions were performed without squeemishness - because non-Catholic hospitals use more gruesome procedures), then there would not be enough business to keep most abortion clinics open. Of course, that is nothing to sue over. The Constitution allows abortion, it does not mandate its availability - which is the difference between being pro-choice and pro-abortion. The ACLU has no case. Its an overreach on their part going beyond the intent of the 14th Amendment.
Good reporting would have gotten these nuances, however they did not ask me for my views either.
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