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Seattle Town Hall Wednesday on the takeover by Catholic hospitals
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Legal Voice, which “secures and protects women’s legal rights”, reports: Perhaps you have heard: Washington State is experiencing an unprecedented wave of mergers between religious hospitals and secular, community hospitals. By the end of 2013, nearly half of Washington’s hospital beds could be under Catholic influence or outright control. What do these hospital takeovers and […]
Are protests like prayers?
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It struck me today that protest is like prayer. Both involve supplication. Both make you feel good. Both are largely ineffective unless someone powerful is listening. But only protests can become violent. A violent prayer no longer counts as prayer. To the extent that protests are like prayers, and to the extent that you believe […]
Drop Swedish: they're discontinuing elective abortions
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According to the Seattle P-I, Swedish to drop elective abortions if deal goes through, Swedish Medical Center, one of the region’s largest hospital systems, will stop performing elective abortions if a proposed alliance with a massive Catholic-run health-care organization is approved…. My primary care physician is with Swedish. Looks like I’ll switch to another provider. Comments […]