[Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Gary,

Can you identify any Catholic hospitals that have been forced to perform abortions?  Do you know of any trends leading to this outcome? Is there legislation forcing this?

Sunil



> From: jampot at roadrunner.com
> To: garrettmc at verizon.net; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:59:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work
> 
> 1. My business is not located in Whitman county.
> 
> 2. Predatory? All business competes with other business. This is the nature 
> of the game. Will Idaho lose some tax revenue? Some, but probably not as 
> much as you think. Those same tax dollars are lost when Idaho residents go 
> to Spokane to shop or make purchases through the intertubes because what 
> they seek is unavailable in Moscow.
> 
> 3. Water. We've been over this one repeatedly. Whether it is delivered by 
> the City of Moscow, pumped from private wells, or provided by the City of 
> Pullman, it's all the same water. The folks who are working and shopping at 
> the new mall would be using the same amount of water if they were working in 
> Moscow, Pullman, Troy, or Colton. You don't uptake or download any more just 
> because you're at the Hawkins development. I suspect that your vegetable 
> production facility uses far more water than any individual business will 
> and provides far fewer jobs. If the Hawkins property were to be turned into 
> a truck farm the same argument you attempt to use applies. Competition with 
> Moscow business. (you) No tax dollars for Idaho. Far higher water 
> consumption. Perhaps you would prefer the land lay fallow?
> 
> 4. I am willing to accept any legal, legitimate business operation located 
> on private property in Latah or Whitman Co. Pullman or Moscow, miles away or 
> right next door to my shop. Period.
> 
> 5. I think that my answer regarding your questions concerning FOCA were to 
> the point. One third of all hospitals in America are Catholic. If a doctor 
> or nurse hired on with one of these facilities they would have a reasonable 
> expectation of working in an environment that did not promote a culture of 
> death. Forcing institutions such as these to provide a service that they did 
> not originally is to force every person employed there to do something that 
> was not in their original job description. I am not talking about the 
> mythical minority that might have hired on at an abortion mill that suddenly 
> don't want to perform their  job. In my example I'm talking about thousands 
> of real health care professionals, in yours you talking about a tiny handful 
> (if that) of hypothetical employees. I stand by my red herring assertion.
> 
> It seems that you are arguing in favor of an employers right to can a 
> hypothetical fraction of his work force rather than the rights of the very 
> real thousands of doctors and nurses who will be adversely impacted by BHO's 
> very bad decision.
> 
> g
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