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	Bishop Olmstead Defended, Attacked for Stand against Abortion in Catholic Hospital Catholic Culture May 27, 2010 http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6470 An international coalition of pro-life activists and Catholic scholars has joined in a statement of support for Bishop Thomas Olmstead of Phoenix, who has drawn heavy press criticism for his condemnation of an abortion performed at a Catholic hospital. “We are also aware of the hostility toward Bishop Olmsted created by a media dedicated to watering down Catholic teaching,” said the group, praising the prelate for his "defense of truth and life." The statement came as a New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, blasted Bishop Olmsted in particular, and the Catholic Church in general, for being "morally obtuse" in the case. Kristof cited several supporters of Sister Margaret McBride, an ethicist at the hospital who incurred automatic excommunication by approving the abortion. The Times columnist did not bother to include the views of any Catholic who upheld the Church teaching that the deliberate killing of a human being can never be justified. Instead he quoted a doctor who defended the operation by saying that "real life is full of difficult moral decisions."
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