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July 14, 2016 10:07 AM UTC
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There are other questions concerning Catholic hospitals. The biggest one for me deals with living wills, and not being kept alive if there is no hope of recovery. I've never seen a straight answer on this from any Catholic hospital. The question was asked repeatedly when Lutheran Hospital in Wheatridge was taken over a few years ago by a Catholic hospital chain that never gave an answer.
Morgan Carroll should feature this in an ad, sure, but not rely on it as her only attack on Coffman. The immigrant policy waffling and incompetent VA hospital oversight should get at least equal weight.
Does anyone know if St. Luke's and St. Joseph's hospitals in Denver are now considered to be Catholic hospitals? If so, are they refusing care for "matters of conscience"?
St. Joe is part of the Kaiser Permanente system, so it would be unclear to me if Catholic principles are followed there. I don't know the current owner of St. Luke.
I don't think this is going to be a particularly useful focus for attack. Been there. Done that. I don't think most people will be shocked by the idea of a Catholic Hospital not performing abortions and it will very easy for Team Coffman to frame it as being as simple as that.
I know from a short past stint fund raising funds for NARAL that many of the minority voters Dems need in CD6 aren't exactly wild about abortion. In fact more of the African American and Latino women I talked to felt that women should have their babies. This focus works better on young white liberal women but they're voting Dem anyway.
Targeting young white liberals isn't going to move the needle in CD6. Lots of moderate women of all kinds are not looking for candidates who sound more like cheerleaders for abortion than simply supporters of the right to choose.
Yes, Coffman's position on choice should be duly noted but it should not be central to Carroll's campaign messaging. Everybody already knows the Dem is for choice and R is not and most in my CD are more concerned about other things.
So, being consistent, when is Mike going to introduce a bill to allow doctors not to serve indigent dying patients for religious reasons??? Perhaps they don't agree with the doctor's Christian faith so it is the doctor's choice to let God decide what to do. Or perhaps the doctor is an atheist and refuses to treat Christians. Or perhaps as many churches in the antebellum south a doctor will find treating people of color abhorrent. But, most obviously, certainly a doctor could refuse treatment to a dying LGBT person. I mean, there are so many different varieties of this you can't name them all. So, what's the difference???? Bet even Mike can't explain that. And I know he doesn't believe it, he's just trying to save his dying career as a politician. Sorry Mike, take it from an old High School acquaintance, it's time to give it up and retire or be retired.