Clash Between Bishop, Catholic Hospital That Authorized Abortion To Save Woman's Life Example Of Situation At Many U.S. Hospitals

Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s decision to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Catholic status in December “is a bellwether of a profound disagreement that is playing out at many Catholic hospitals around the country,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. The loss of the hospital’s Catholic status is related to its authorization of an abortion to save a woman’s life…

Clash Between Bishop, Catholic Hospital That Authorized Abortion To Save Woman's Life Example Of Situation At Many U.S. Hospitals

Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s decision to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Catholic status in December “is a bellwether of a profound disagreement that is playing out at many Catholic hospitals around the country,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. The loss of the hospital’s Catholic status is related to its authorization of an abortion to save a woman’s life…

Sex Trafficking In U.S. Should Be 'National Scandal,' New York Times' Kristof Writes

Although “Americans tend to associate ‘modern slavery’ with illiterate girls in India or Cambodia,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes that he recently interviewed a college graduate who emigrated from China and “says she spent three years terrorized by pimps in a brothel in Midtown Manhattan…

Misoprostol Has Potential For 'Gynecological Revolution' In Abortion Access, New York Times Columnist Writes

Researchers are finding that the medication misoprostol is an alternative to surgical abortion “that is safe, cheap and very difficult for governments to restrict” and could save “tens of thousands of women’s lives … each year,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes…

Opinions: Family Planning; U.S. Food Aid

Comprehensive Family Planning Approach Needed, Not Just ‘Contraceptive Dispensary’ In his latest New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof writes about the “unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” noting some experiences from a recent trip to Africa. “So the pill, 50 years old this month in the United States, has yet to reach parts of Africa…

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