ANOTHER UNHOLY ALLIANCE IN CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE?

Why would a thriving Catholic hospital endanger its ethical mission by teaming up with a medical conglomerate that supports abortion, contraception, the morning-after pill and human embryonic stem cell research? And how does the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, justify the claim that its hospital, Catholic Medical Center (CMC), will retain its Catholic integrity in a proposed affiliation with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health (DHH)? While pro-life Americans nationwide battle the Obama administration juggernaut – working to defend doctors’ conscience rights and to exclude abortion from national health care – some in the “Live Free or Die” state are at odds with their own diocese.