Well as tough as things are in the hospital business, add one more issue, if they have to perform abortions, some of the bishops want to close down the hospitals! Obviously selling 600 hospitals right now is probably a little difficult as well since there’s not much profit in the hospital business these days and we keep seeing more cutbacks, layoffs and bankruptcies.
So if the bill goes through we are “evil”? How about the other surgeries that are performed that not evil, but rather lifesaving? Right now I see a lot more evil in too many other areas and it makes this issue look very small by comparison. If the hospital doesn’t want to participate, why not set up an outsourced leased department, like Nordstrom does with shoes in the stores, and perhaps this way everyone can be happy. 
Are we concerned about being evil or saving lives as the number of abortions is far exceeded by other types of surgeries performed at all hospitals. BD
Roman Catholic bishops are threatening to close more than 600 Catholic hospitals if the Freedom of Choice Act, which would codify Roe v. Wade, is enacted, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. FOCA's sponsor, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), intends to reintroduce the bill, which failed to pass out of subcommittee in 2004, now that its former co-sponsor President Obama is in office and the Democrats control Congress, according to Ilan Kayatsky, a spokesperson for Nadler.
Catholic bishops who oppose FOCA argue that it will force Catholic hospitals and health care workers to participate in abortions. According to the Post-Dispatch, there is some debate on whether closing Catholic-affiliated hospitals is the most effective response to FOCA rather than simply ignoring the law. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago said during the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that it would "not be sufficient to withdraw our sponsorship or to sell" Catholic hospitals to groups or organizations that would provide abortion services. Paprocki said that to do so "would be a morally unacceptable cooperation in evil."
Some Catholic Bishops To Close Hospitals If FOCA Is Enacted, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reports
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