might be of interest since Catholicism came up in this weeks posts

http://www.msmagazine.com/winter2010/bishopslossfaithful.asp

I have this vague memory that when I was trained in as a doula at Woodwinds Hospital (part of health east/st. john's/st. joe's) they said something about how there was one un-Catholic floor of the hospital, so if you, say, wanted your tubes tied after having a baby, they'd send you to that floor, but i don't know if i am remembering this correctly, but it was along those lines. at any rate, i hadn't before realized that if you are in a catholic hospital your care is affected by catholic rules/ideologies. i suppose it makes sense if they are paying for it, but i was surprised to hear it.

the above article is about bishops insisting on adding an abortion amendment to the House's health care bill, after both parties had pretty much agreed to leave abortion out of the health care reform bill...