{"id":1704986,"date":"2022-10-21T03:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704986"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:33:24","slug":"as-the-medias-pro-abortion-propaganda-heats-up-catholic-hospitals-are-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-the-medias-pro-abortion-propaganda-heats-up-catholic-hospitals-are-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"As The Media\u2019s Pro-Abortion Propaganda Heats Up, Catholic Hospitals Are In The Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-the-medias-pro-abortion-propaganda-heats-up-catholic-hospitals-are-in-the-crosshairs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704986&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Since the leaking of the Supreme Court\u2019s expected overturing of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> this spring, there has been a seemingly coordinated hostility toward any institutional or cultural opposition to abortion. There have been overt attacks on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/corporate-media-law-enforcement-uninterested-in-political-violence-when-it-involves-pregnancy-centers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pregnancy resource centers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/06\/fbi-raids-another-pro-lifers-home-in-federal-prosecution-against-11-peaceful-opponents-of-state-sponsored-child-killings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI raids<\/a> of pro-lifers\u2019 homes, but perhaps one of the largest, longest-standing pro-life institutions facing an increasing number of attacks from both the federal government and their allies in the corporate media is Catholic hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 5,000 Catholic hospitals nationwide, Catholic health providers are a substantial part of the country\u2019s health care infrastructure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chausa.org\/about\/about\/facts-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One in six hospital patients<\/a>\u00a0in the United States is treated in a Catholic facility, according to the Catholic Health Association. So for pro-abortion activists, undermining the legitimacy of Catholic health systems makes sense as an efficient and far-reaching target. Catholic hospitals, of course, reject the left\u2019s favorite euphemism that abortion is \u201chealth care.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The Seismic Effect of Section 1557 <\/p>\n<p>Although hostility toward Catholic health providers goes back years, one could argue it was just a few weeks after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision was handed down in July that the Biden administration sanctioned an all-out war. Biden\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced revised rules to implement Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would force Catholic health providers to violate their religious beliefs by forcing them to perform abortions and wrongly named \u201cgender-affirming\u201d procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2022\/07\/25\/hhs-announces-proposed-rule-to-strengthen-nondiscrimination-in-health-care.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rule change<\/a> would alter the definition of \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex\u201d to include \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of pregnancy or related conditions\u201d including \u201cpregnancy termination.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The effect of this rule change cannot be overstated considering how removing First Amendment rights and conscience protections from more than 5,000 hospitals across the country \u2014 often the only health care providers in rural and minority communities \u2014 would exacerbate the existing health care worker shortage. When the HHS comment period on the proposed rule change closed on Oct. 3, there were nearly 74,000 comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2022\/08\/04\/2022-16217\/nondiscrimination-in-health-programs-and-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the abortion industry immediately hopped on board. The same day as the HHS announcement, the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, not only celebrated the proposed rule change but insinuated that health providers such as Catholic hospitals are \u201csystemic barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s undertaking will help people lead healthy lives, without fear of discrimination in how or where they seek care. This proposed rule is a critical step in protecting people who already face discrimination and systemic barriers to accessing health care,\u201d a Planned Parenthood statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/about-us\/newsroom\/press-releases\/biden-administration-combats-discrimination-in-health-care-with-new-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2022\/bishop-chairmen-condemn-harmful-regulations-forcing-gender-ideology-and-potentially\">U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/a> and other Catholic organizations said the proposed rule change would force providers to violate their religious and moral convictions and \u201cthreaten our ability to carry out our healing ministries, and others\u2019 to practice medicine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Enter Media Allies  <\/p>\n<p>Despite such a consequential rule change on the horizon, any media-driven conversation on its impact on religious health care workers and the patients they serve has been nearly non-existent. Instead, as we entered the fall and midterms inched around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widespread effort to vilify Catholic hospitals to appease the loudest radical abortion voices seems more than coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":1704989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}