Letter
Archbishop Broglio's Letter to U.S. Senate Regarding Elective Abortions in Military Hospitals (2010)
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio's Letter to the U.S. Senate Regarding FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 3280), June 17, 2010
"As one concerned with the moral well-being of the Armed Services, I write in regard to the FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 3280). Action by the Senate Armed Services Committee inserted language from Senator Burris to require military hospitals to perform abortions in both domestic and overseas military bases. This is a reversal of longstanding policy, and would contravene our military health care providers’ commitment to defending and protecting human life.
To introduce elective abortion in domestic and overseas military hospitals would pressure military physicians, nurses and associated medical personnel to engage in an act of taking innocent human life."