{"id":327,"date":"2010-12-22T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/ariz-bishop-to-pregnant-women-drop-dead-rather-than-abort.html"},"modified":"2010-12-22T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:22:00","slug":"ariz-bishop-to-pregnant-women-drop-dead-rather-than-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/ariz-bishop-to-pregnant-women-drop-dead-rather-than-abort.html","title":{"rendered":"Ariz. Bishop to Pregnant Women: Drop Dead (Rather than Abort)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-12-21-phoenix-catholic-hospital_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix has stripped St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic affiliation <\/a>because of the 2009 procedure that ended a woman&#8217;s life-threatening&nbsp;pregnancy at 11 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the hospital should have allowed her to die, rather than&nbsp;return to her four children at home. Or, perhaps St. Joseph&#8217;s could have transferred her someplace that wouldn&#8217;t have to answer to religious authorities. God forbid &#8212; literally &#8212; we leave medical decisions to the doctors and patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2010\/12\/abortion-catholic-hospital-bishop\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">USA Today <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/12\/22\/bishop-says-hospital-that-aborted-dying-fetus-to-save-mother-no\/\">PoliticsDaily<\/a> have more on this story. Also, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/article\/20101222\/NEWS\/312229967\">out the Catholic Health Association&#8217;s defense of the 115-year-old hospital<\/a>, Arizona&#8217;s largest.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;d love to hear what the patient and her family have to say, but they&#8217;ve been quiet on this.)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix has stripped St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital and Medical Center of its Catholic affiliation because of the 2009 procedure that ended a woman&#8217;s life-threatening&nbsp;pregnancy at 11 weeks. Apparently, the hospital should have allowed her to die, rather than&nbsp;return to her four children at home. Or, perhaps St. Joseph&#8217;s could have transferred&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ariz. 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