Since the leaking of the Supreme Court’s expected overturing of Roe v. Wade this spring, there has been a seemingly coordinated hostility toward any institutional or cultural opposition to abortion. There have been overt attacks on pregnancy resource centers and FBI raids of pro-lifers’ homes, but perhaps one of the largest, longest-standing pro-life institutions facing an increasing number of attacks from both the federal government and their allies in the corporate media is Catholic hospitals.
With more than 5,000 Catholic hospitals nationwide, Catholic health providers are a substantial part of the country’s health care infrastructure. One in six hospital patients in
