Sacramento, Calif., Oct 1, 2008 / 03:06 am
William J. Cox, President and Executive Director of the Alliance of Catholic Healthcare, has submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning proposed federal regulations which would protect the conscience rights of medical professionals. He said the new rules are “especially important” in light of several attempts by California legislators to “single out” and “blacklist” Catholic hospitals.
“The proposed regulation would help ensure that federal funds do not support morally coercive practices in violation of federal non-discrimination laws related to abortion,” Cox wrote in his September 16 letter to Michael Leavitt, HHS Secretary.
The Alliance of Catholic Healthcare represents California’s Catholic health care systems and providers, a network that is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in California and the eighth largest in the
Nation.