Apparently there are rumblings that Obama’s so-called Freedom of Choice Act (which is the first thing he’ll enact as president) will force Catholic hospitals out of business.  Not to mention pro-life Ob/Gyn practices, Christian hospitals in general, and so on.  From the Philadelphia Bulletin:

It is clear the FOCA raises abortion to what it calls a “fundamental right.” Yet it is not clear if Catholics realize the threat that Mr. Obama poses to the unborn, to believing Catholics in the medical profession, and to Catholic hospitals across the nation.

Michael Moses, legal analyst of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops called it a “radical measure” that will “go way beyond Roe [vs. Wade].” The language is so sweeping that it will wipe out any state’s “conscience” clause, which is the law that allows hospitals, doctors and nurses to abstain from taking part in abortion for reasons of conscience. If abortion is a “fundamental right”, according to FOCA, then every hospital must provide it.

The net result, as one writer noted, is “President Obama and his congressional supermajority would force every Christian hospital, doctor or nurse to abandon their faith or go out of business.” Under FOCA, believing Christians could be banned from the hospital industry (and apostolate) by federal law.

Of course this fits the template very nicely.  In Obama’s worldview, government is the source of all things good.  So, he can eliminate competition with this mindset by eliminating private hospitals, many if not most of which are run by one church or another…and most churches that run hospitals are pro-life.  Get rid of the private hospitals, and the government-run ones become more popular by default…they grow, more are built, and government’s stanglehold on our lives grows even more.

How’s that for your spooky Halloween news?