The Saint Gianna Physician’s Guild has begun a petition drive calling for the Obama Administration to reverse course on the HHS mandate. This is a great organization, with more about them in a minute.
Cardinal Raymond Burke has issued the following statement:
I wholeheartedly express my solidarity with the Stop The Birth Control Mandate petition promoted by St. Gianna Physician’s Guild protesting the recent decree by the Department of Health and Human Services of our federal government. I encourage Catholics to sign the petition and thus unite their support of Holy Mother Church by protesting the most grievous violation of the right to religious liberty for Catholics in the United States.
~Raymond Cardinal Burke
Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION
At this writing there are 19,311 signatures. Please send this link to all of your friends and family and encourage them to sign the petition.
Now, a little about this wonderful physician’s guild from their website:
Saint Gianna Physicians Guild was founded by a Catholic layman who saw a need for physicians and other health care workers to bring their Faith into their lives and medical practices in a more pronounced way.
Thomas McKenna founded the organization and then teamed up with a close friend and internationally renowned physician in the specialty of gynecologic oncology from the University of Southern California, Dr. Paul Morrow, to form a movement to do this.
The Mission
The mission of St. Gianna Physician’s Guild is to unite and encourage Catholic physicians, and those in the health care profession, to promote and defend Catholic principles in a public way by word and example, and to inspire sanctification in their lives.
It seeks to use the influence and expertise of the medical profession to clarify and support sound ethics and morality in the practice of medicine and proclaim them in the public forum. As a way of promoting these values in the personal lives of the faithful, the Guild has a special devotional outreach to promotes and teach about the life and virtues of their patron, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, a dedicated wife, mother and physician who lived and practiced her faith in an exemplar way in the 20th century.
St. Gianna died in 1962 at the age of 39. She sacrificed her life for that of her unborn daughter when confronted with complications caused by a tumor that developed during her pregnancy. St. Gianna was canonized by Pope John Paul II on May 16, 2004.
AGAIN, PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION
Sorry. I, along with millions of Americans believe the health and welfare of men, and especially women are of paramount importance over the desires of the Catholic Church.
The mandated ruling to allow everyone the right to free access to birth control is necessary to help control socially transmitted diseases and most importantly prevent unwanted pregnancies. There is absolutely no benefit to restricting or blocking this mandate as written.
The Birth Control Mandate does not force the Catholic Church to buy, store, distribute, or council anyone to violate their personal beliefs concerning birth control. The Catholic Church is exempt from this mandate. Such inclusion of availability to birth control within employee insurance is inclusive to all employees of hospitals, clinics, and other helath care providers regardless of religious beliefs.
Sorry, there is no shortage of birthcontrol (patch, pill, implant, iud, shot, cream spermacidal, condoms etc.) in America, kindergardners have liberals frothing at the mouth to get it into their hands. THIS IS FACT!! You lie. This is about testing the waters for a more deadly mandate, that of abortion in All healthcare plans, and if Catholics object, well they can just shutdown all of their healthcare systems or submit to this tyranny. You DO NOT have the right to force these institutions to provide in any way for YOUR abortifacient drugs and this is what the birth control pill does, this is against our teachings on the sanctity of life going back 2000 years. Catholic churches and hospitals, schools and charities are one body-That of Christ-and nothing can separate us from Him.
“kindergardners have liberals frothing at the mouth to get it into their hands. THIS IS FACT!!”
What?
“Catholic churches and hospitals, schools and charities are one body-That of Christ-and nothing can separate us from Him.”
You create demons where none exist. This is what makes you crazy. Not liberals.
Dawn and Stephen,
My blog is an extension of my dining room table, and guests are asked to comport themselves accordingly. Please refrain from ad hominem’s and stay with the issues.
Thanks!