Catholic Healthcare System Partners with Pro-abortion Clinic
Summary
CommonSpirit Health, a major Catholic healthcare system, has partnered with Ask Tia, an online women’s health clinic that provides abortion pills and referrals for surgical abortions. This collaboration, aimed at launching Tia-branded women’s health clinics, has stirred controversy given the Catholic Church's staunch opposition to abortion. CommonSpirit's mission emphasizes serving the vulnerable and reflecting God's healing presence, yet this partnership extends to services that contradict church teachings, such as medication abortions and gender-affirming care.
Relevance
This is relevant to the project because we're often seeing in the media that catholic hospitals and organizations are pushing to distance themseleves from practices that are 'contraversial' in the catholic church. This is a different approach, and the justification used is a different application of the principles of the sanctity of life.