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A story in the Republican-American today says Connecticut Right to Life will oppose the merger of Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital if it “would result in the opening of a new abortion clinic in Waterbury.” Catholicism and abortion will both somehow be accommodated in the proposed merger, say Waterbury’s CEO and a third entity whose apparent mission is to guarantee the continuation of abortions after abortion-providing hospitals merge with Catholic ones.

FIC is monitoring the situation. It may be that the merger will advance the culture of death in Connecticut, in which case we will join CRLC in opposing the merger. It may also be that pro-abortion forces have more to lose in this merger than the unborn.

A cherished goal of the pro-abortion movement is the mainstreaming of abortion as just another surgical procedure, no more significant than having your tonsils removed. It infuriates pro-abortionists that most abortions are done in abortion clinics, isolated buildings where everyone knows that innocent human life is being taken.

Moving Waterbury Hospital’s abortions to an abortion clinic might actually bring us a step closer to ending abortion altogether in the Brass City, by separating it out from true health services and spotlighting the cruelty of it to Waterbury’s citizens. Protesting an abortion clinic would be easier than protesting Waterbury Hospital.

Watch for further updates.

One Response to “Waterbury Hospital Merger and Right to Life”

  1. […] the potential merger was first announced last summer, FIC expressed guarded optimism that it would not harm the pro-life cause. But if a once-pro-life hospital morphs into an entity that allows abortions under the legal fiction […]

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