Health Care

The letter also requested that health plans which include abortion notify consumers of that fact at the time of enrollment to prevent consumers from buying such plans if they who do not wish to.

“We're supposed to show the face of Christ to people, but how can you do that if you take off when the going gets tough?” asked Dr. Tom Catena, a 54-year old physician from Amsterdam, New York.

For a website with a quantitative bent, FiveThirtyEight is surprisingly willing in this case to use statistics to obscure the truth.

The C.D.C. reports a 25 percent spike between 1999 and 2016 in the frequency of suicide across the country.

The medical profession’s hegemony over questions of illness and dying is not complete; faith communities are still needed for discernment and guidance.