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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><A
href="http://www.slate.com/id/2205326/">http://www.slate.com/id/2205326/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>If the <A href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1173"
target=_blank>Freedom of Choice Act</A> passes Congress, and that's a big if,
Obama has promised to sign it the second it hits his desk. (<A
href="http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/07/one_year_annive.html"
target=_blank>Here</A> he is at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund event in 2007,
vowing, "The first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice
Act. That's the first thing I'd do.") Though it's often referred to as a mere
codification of <EM>Roe</EM>, FOCA, as currently drafted, actually goes well
beyond that: According to the Senate sponsor of the bill, Barbara Boxer, in a <A
href="http://boxer.senate.gov/news/releases/record.cfm?id=217321"
target=_blank>statement</A> on her Web site, FOCA would nullify all existing
laws and regulations that limit abortion in any way, up to the time of fetal
viability. Laws requiring parental notification and informed consent would be
tossed out. While there is strenuous <A
href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2008/09/doug-kmiec-responds-to-nationa.html#more"
target=_blank>debate among legal experts</A> on the matter, <A
href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/24/new-president-more-abortions/"
target=_blank>many believe</A> the act would invalidate the
freedom-of-conscience laws on the books in 46 states. These are the laws that
allow Catholic hospitals and health providers that receive public funds through
Medicaid and Medicare to opt out of performing abortions. Without public funds,
these health centers couldn't stay open; if forced to do abortions, they would
sooner close their doors. Even the prospect of selling the institutions to other
providers wouldn't be an option, the bishops have said, because that would
constitute "material cooperation with an intrisic evil."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>So, in order of asking, No and I want it to remain that
way. Yes and yes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>g</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jampot@roadrunner.com
href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</A> ; <A
title=garrettmc@verizon.net
href="mailto:garrettmc@verizon.net">garrettmc@verizon.net</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision
2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets
Nod for Starting Work</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Gary,<BR><BR>Can you identify any Catholic hospitals that have
been forced to perform abortions? Do you know of any trends leading to
this outcome? Is there legislation forcing
this?<BR><BR>Sunil<BR><BR><BR><BR>> From: <A
href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com">jampot@roadrunner.com</A><BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:garrettmc@verizon.net">garrettmc@verizon.net</A>; <A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> Date:
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:59:51 -0700<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets
Nod for Starting Work<BR>> <BR>> 1. My business is not located in
Whitman county.<BR>> <BR>> 2. Predatory? All business competes with
other business. This is the nature <BR>> of the game. Will Idaho lose some
tax revenue? Some, but probably not as <BR>> much as you think. Those same
tax dollars are lost when Idaho residents go <BR>> to Spokane to shop or
make purchases through the intertubes because what <BR>> they seek is
unavailable in Moscow.<BR>> <BR>> 3. Water. We've been over this one
repeatedly. Whether it is delivered by <BR>> the City of Moscow, pumped
from private wells, or provided by the City of <BR>> Pullman, it's all the
same water. The folks who are working and shopping at <BR>> the new mall
would be using the same amount of water if they were working in <BR>>
Moscow, Pullman, Troy, or Colton. You don't uptake or download any more just
<BR>> because you're at the Hawkins development. I suspect that your
vegetable <BR>> production facility uses far more water than any individual
business will <BR>> and provides far fewer jobs. If the Hawkins property
were to be turned into <BR>> a truck farm the same argument you attempt to
use applies. Competition with <BR>> Moscow business. (you) No tax dollars
for Idaho. Far higher water <BR>> consumption. Perhaps you would prefer the
land lay fallow?<BR>> <BR>> 4. I am willing to accept any legal,
legitimate business operation located <BR>> on private property in Latah or
Whitman Co. Pullman or Moscow, miles away or <BR>> right next door to my
shop. Period.<BR>> <BR>> 5. I think that my answer regarding your
questions concerning FOCA were to <BR>> the point. One third of all
hospitals in America are Catholic. If a doctor <BR>> or nurse hired on with
one of these facilities they would have a reasonable <BR>> expectation of
working in an environment that did not promote a culture of <BR>> death.
Forcing institutions such as these to provide a service that they did <BR>>
not originally is to force every person employed there to do something that
<BR>> was not in their original job description. I am not talking about the
<BR>> mythical minority that might have hired on at an abortion mill that
suddenly <BR>> don't want to perform their job. In my example I'm talking
about thousands <BR>> of real health care professionals, in yours you
talking about a tiny handful <BR>> (if that) of hypothetical employees. I
stand by my red herring assertion.<BR>> <BR>> It seems that you are
arguing in favor of an employers right to can a <BR>> hypothetical fraction
of his work force rather than the rights of the very <BR>> real thousands
of doctors and nurses who will be adversely impacted by BHO's <BR>> very
bad decision.<BR>> <BR>> g<BR>> ----- Original Message -----
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