Health-care plans must follow moral law, Pope insists [CWN]

[CWN_News]

Health-care policy “cannot divorce itself from moral rules,” Pope Benedict XVI insists. In a message to the Pontifical Council for Health Care, which is hosting a conference in Rome …

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[kimmielittle]

Dear Holy Father,

We certainly needed statements like this before Health Care, here.
It’s much harder to clean up after legislation has passed, IMO

While urging governments to ensure broader access to adequate primary care, the Pope decried the “schools of thought which harm this justice.” He continued:

I am thinking of questions such as those associated with so-called reproductive health, the use of artificial procreation techniques that involve the destruction of embryos, and legalized euthanasia. Love for justice, the defense of life from conception until natural end, must be supported and proclaimed, even if this means going against the tide.

 

[NewEnglandPriest]

Dear Holy Father,

We certainly needed statements like this before Health Care, here.
It’s much harder to clean up after legislation has passed, IMO

I doubt its aimed at the USA. As the article notes, the Pontifical Council on Health Care is hosting a conference this week that most likely is focused on many issues that have little to nothing to do with the USA debate.