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such a wonderful story
you know how much uh... the
catholic territory catholic hospitals have in the past
refuse to them
provide a uh... things like emergency contraception to rape victims because of
course
the idea that your uh...
that your are potentially
uh...
fertilized egg
is a precious
human life a person if you will
that we don't have the uh... you know
you get a remember ladies your just a vessel
to grow these things inside of the
and we now how much of the right has been pushing for yahoo that's why i a m
they have problems with abortion and uh... with uh... with a contraceptive
pills
having to act their hospitals say or their non
religious institutions
provide a health insurance that covers
things like uh... contraception
well i apparently in colorado
the catholic help initiatives
an angle would based nonprofit that runs the saint thomas more hospital
and a hundred seventy other health facilities in seventeen states
uh... is star missing a slightly different too
they're being sued for wrongful death
by
jeremy starchy whose
and uh... um...
whose wife was
sent to a uh... one of their hospitals
she uh... was having problems with their pregnancy
she had uh...
she was pregnant with twins in her womb
she
died in the hospital on our after she arrived there
the uh... ob-gyn was not uh...
sparsely on-call was not available
did not answer the phone
the uh...
the case says
they should have ordered a caesarean shepherd section
to uh...
perhaps save the life of the mother
and perhaps save the lives of of the child
the the um...
the twins
delete defended my case i guess as this catholic health initiatives
they uh...
dave witness to the sanctity of life from the moment of conception until
death
this is director for their hospitals the church's defense of life in country
compasses the unborn but when it came to mounting a defense
and start your case the catholic health lawyers
affectively turn the church directives on their head according to the colorado
independent
they're arguing that state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn
fetuses on the grounds that those fetuses are not persons with a legal
rights
uh... ho
attorney for the denver based and uh... attorney for the uh... organization
argued and one of the briefs the filed for the defect defense decor should not
overturn
the long-standing rule in colorado that the term person as it is used in the
wrongful death packed encompasses only individuals born alive
colorado state court defines person under the
actual include only those born alive therefore planets cannot maintain
wrongful death claims
based on two
unborn
fetuses
i have to say i agree with the defense in this case
um...
they were not born alive
not persons in the context of civil society
and do not have the same rights
as persons ward
but it's interesting to see the catholic church come around on this
when of course uh...
some of their millions
of millions of millions of dollars
that they generate in this business
uh...
partially
fifteen billion dollars worth of assets
are on the line