Planned Parenthood head thanks religious sisters for 'critical support' of health care bill [CNA]

[CNA_News]

Washington D.C., Mar 27, 2010 / 07:28 am (CNA).- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has praised the Catholic religious sisters who endorsed the Senate health care bill, claiming they deserve gratitude for making “a critical demonstration of support” for a bill that significantly increased coverage of “reproductive health care.”

Writing for the Huffington Post Wednesday in her capacity as president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Richards claimed that it was Catholic nuns who “most importantly broke with the bishops and the Vatican to announce their support for health care reform.”

“This brave and important move, demonstrating that they cared as much about the health care of families in America as they did about church hierarchy, was a critical demonstration of support.”

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[timotheos]

Richards claimed that it was Catholic nuns who “most importantly broke with the bishops and the Vatican to announce their support for health care reform.”

“This brave and important move, demonstrating that they cared as much about the health care of families in America as they did about church hierarchy, was a critical demonstration of support."

And there’s the little pat on the back for betraying your Holy Mother, the Church, in the name of political expediency. Oh what a terrible, terrible time in which we live. A rosary is in order …

-Tim

 

[RobbyS]

And there’s the little pat on the back for betraying your Holy Mother, the Church, in the name of political expediency. Oh what a terrible, terrible time in which we live. A rosary is in order …

-Tim

I can’t figure out of the nun who is the president is stupid or dishonest. I think the former: she can’t seem to unders and the implications of it all. Within ten years, all Catholic hospitals in the USA will be Saint Elsewheres.