{"id":20233,"date":"2010-06-09T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_what_happens_when_medical_religious_ethics_clash\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T15:00:55","slug":"usa_today_what_happens_when_medical_religious_ethics_clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20233","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: What happens when medical, religious ethics clash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case of an abortion at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix prompted an angry bishop to rebuke the Sister of Mercy who allowed the surgery to save the mother&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t have to be a pregnant woman with a rare heart condition to be affected by the questions raised at St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital and Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t even have to be Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in a Catholic facility (where one-sixth of U.S. hospital beds are located), the Phoenix case could make you question who has final say in life-and-death decisions: You, or the local bishop?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-06-08-ethics08_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of an abortion at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix prompted an angry bishop to rebuke the Sister of Mercy who allowed the surgery to save the mother&#8217;s life. But you don&#8217;t have to be a pregnant woman with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20233\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,168,104,154,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}