Biblical Medicine: How Religious Authorities Can Have Power Over Your Life and Death Decisions | Alternet

"Religion can play a harmful and inappropriate role in our hospital rooms... Each of these individuals, together with loved ones, wrestled with some of the most difficult decisions any of us can face. In all cases, the response of the Catholic Bishops would have been to deny them options—to fall back on the current position of the Church hierarchy: “we believe life is sacred from conception to natural death...”

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