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Catholic Nun Excommunicated for
Saving Pregnant Woman's Life!
Post by Jonathan L. Walton
Last
year a gravely ill pregnant woman was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital
and Medical Center in Phoenix with heart failure. Doctors advised the
woman that the pregnancy was literally killing her. She agreed to an
abortion. One major problem: St. Joseph's is a Catholic hospital.
Since
the woman was too ill to be transferred to another hospital in time to
save her life, Sister Margaret McBride, hospital administrator,
approved the procedure. Yet when Bishop Thomas Olmsted received word
that Sister McBride approved an abortion, he passed down the harshest
penalty of the Catholic church, excommunication.
Here is my comment on this atrocity:
Catholic Nun Excommunication Abortion
Posted by Daniel Vojir posting anonymously on May 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM
I saw this article and felt compelled to comment for personal reasons, so please bear with me.
I was born in St. Vincent's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital in
Chicago. It was an orphanage and I was put up from birth immediately.
So, I literally popped out of the womb into the arms of a nun.
I know I screamed "PUT ME BACK!!" but nobody listened to me. I was
handled by nuns for the first 15 months of my life. I went through
Catholic grade school with flying colors. Others were not so lucky. To
say the nuns were harsh ... They were also very, very old and
undereducated. They had bizarre quirks that they fostered in the
extreme. They used kids (like me) to further their own political stance
within the parish or with their mother superior. They worshiped the
ground the priests walked on.
After my grade school incarceration, I then went from the frying pan
into the fire: a college prep school taught by Dominican priests. No, I
wasn't molested (I wasn't cute enough), but they certainly beat us into
submission.
I am now a recovering Catholic.
Several years ago, I found out about the Duplessis Orphan scandal that
rocked not only Canada but the rest of the world. I was struck dumb,
for you see, my birth mother was French Canadian and I was born at the
very height of the atrocious abuse. There but for the grace of God...
My point is this: the Catholic church wouldn't know a good nun from a
bad one. The nun in question made the right decision, but if the
situation were put forth in front of any of the nuns who handled me, I
am positive that the pregnant woman would have been sacrificed.
Up until the 1980's the sadistic Magdalene
Laundries operated with impunity. 'Wayward girls" were to be treated as
worthless slaves: physically, emotionally and, yes, even sexually.
The present pope still believes in the subjugation of women.
Sister Mary McBride I salute you. I only wish you were around when I was growing up.
