Catholic Church quickly changes its ideology when it's their money at stake
Quote:Catholic Hospital Lawyers Denying Fetus Is 'Baby'
A Catholic hospital is arguing in court that a fetus is not legally a person, a claim aimed at limiting financial damages in a malpractice case that has ignited backlash and drawn scrutiny over the tension between religious doctrine and legal defense.
Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, which operates MercyOne Medical Center in Des Moines, is facing a wrongful death lawsuit from Miranda and Landen Anderson. The couple alleges that MercyOne failed to act on signs of preeclampsia during Miranda's pregnancy, leading to the stillbirth of their daughter, Eloise, at 34 weeks gestation.
In legal filings, the hospital argues that because the child was not born alive, the death should not qualify as the loss of a "person" under Iowa law — a strategy intended to invoke the state's $250,000 cap on noneconomic malpractice damages, according to the Iowa State Dispatch.
CHI's ethics guidelines state that it is committed to "respect the sacredness of every human life from the moment of conception until death." Yet its current legal defense appears to contradict that principle — a conflict that has surfaced before on the national stage.
Given the Catholic Church's belief that life begins at conception, defense attorneys for the hospital and doctors made an unusual argument: that legally recognizing a fetus as a "person" could carry serious consequences in other areas of the law. They also noted that no statute or binding case law currently defines an unborn child as a "patient."
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
