Federal authorities are investigating the actions of a Catholic charity in Richmond which helped a 16-year-old Guatemalan girl to receive an abortion in January, in possible violation of Virginia law.The government is scolding the bishops about an abortion? Yup, and they seem to deserve it, not directly, but through lack of oversight.
HHS provides $7.6 million a year in contracts with the USCCB for foster care of immigrant children. The bishops group subcontracts services through agencies like Commonwealth Catholic Charities.
"These federal funds are awarded with the clear purpose of caring for unaccompanied minors here from other countries," said HHS spokesman Kenneth Wolfe. "To that end, we were surprised and disappointed to learn of a chapter of Catholic Charities using this funding to facilitate a minor procuring an abortion."
Tell me this doesn't sting coming from the federal government:
"We have also requested several corrective actions be taken by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ... in order to prevent this type of abuse from happening again," Mr. Wolfe said. "Our agency is one that supports human life, and we take that responsibility seriously."The whole story is awful. Orphaned refugee child gets pregnant, and placed in the care of Catholic Charities of Richmond, she gets...exactly the care she'd have gotten had she gone to Planned Parenthood.
