[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/catholic-hospital-argues-_n_2534383.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular]Article[/url] [quote]Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect “unborn persons,” and Catholic Health’s lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights. As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver-based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court “should not overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term ‘person,’ as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive. Colorado state courts define ‘person’ under the Act to include only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful death claims based on two unborn fetuses.”[/quote] So here's what happened: A woman who was 7 months pregnant went to the hospital with chest pains. The doctor who was on call didn't answer a page and didn't make it to the hospital in time to save the woman's babies. The woman's husband is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital on behalf of the two fetuses that died. But now, the hospital's lawyers are saying that the court should not recognize fetuses as people for the purposes of wrongful death lawsuits. If the hospital wins, then they will have further cemented the laws that they fight to overturn. So do you think that the hospital was forced into this situation and has no choice but to argue that fetuses are not people, even though they are a Catholic organization that defines "life" as starting at conception? Or do you think that the hospital is displaying hypocrisy?