Fetuses are people. Unless it costs the church money

[Gabriel Syme]

It is not all about the handling of knowlege.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...78215.html

This is a report on a recent scandel here in Germany, where a catholic hospital refused to give a rape victim treatment, since that "could" potentialy lead to an abortion.

You say:

a catholic hospital refused to give a rape victim treatment

the link says: (my emphasis)

A 25-year-old possible rape victim was reportedly refused a basic exam at two Catholic hospitals in Cologne last month. The Church says the impression that rape victims can't be treated at Catholic hospitals is "false."

If a "possible rape victim" was really refused treatment at a Catholic hospital, then we can be sure that the media would be as unequivocal in stating this as you were.

I suspect the "possible rape victim" was not a rape victim, and so declined an examination, rather than was turned away.

The media do put out a lot of biased negative propaganda about the Catholic Church, it is disappointing how easy it is for them to influence people.

Words like "reportedly", "apparently", "seemed to", etc should be a dead giveaway to people.

Reports containing such words are not making statements of fact, they are promoting malicious gossip.