WHY IS THE US IGNORING THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?

In 1957 I was in the Chicago area and had no choice but to go to a Catholic Hospital. I asked the doctor if there only one of us could be saved, my unborn child or I, who would live. He said, even though it was a Catholic Hospital they had to respect the choice of the patient. He assured me I would live to raise my other, 4 year old, child. Fortunately that was not put to a test.

Ann Neumann, AlterNet. Posted November 3, 2009. It is now 52 years later and Roe versus Wade has been the law of the land for many years. The majority of USA citizens believe it should be respected. We do not all believe in the same religions nor scientific findings but our forefathers tried to make a country where everyone could be safe to believe whatever felt true to them. Why then are we fostering a view that it is okay to kill doctors who are trying to observe the law that allows women, who desperately want them, to obtain abortions?

Neumann's article asks the question: Does the Vatican Have a Say in Your Health Decisions? "In the first months of her pregnancy, Candace Rich informed her doctors that she wanted to have her tubes tied. Tubal ligation is cheaper and easier on the patient's health when done during a Cesarean section, so Rich asked her doctors to perform the procedure if she required one. Two days after her due date, Rich was told that she would need a Cesarean but that the hospital refused to perform the simple operation because St. Luke, formerly a secular facility, now operated under Catholic doctrine.

"The doctor told me that 'because of the Vatican,' St. Luke could no longer do that procedure," said Rich in an affidavit. She was forced to find another hospital in the last few days before her surgery and to pay for the full cost of the operation."

For her complete article, click here .

What is wrong with our political system that it ignores our laws and basic tenets of our Constitution? Are people really afraid if they don't go along with what religious 'leaders' preach that they will really not go to 'Heaven'? What makes it so difficult to see hypocrisy when it is so blatant?