CommonSpirit Health is our nation’s largest Catholic healthcare provider. As I have reported earlier this year, they appear to be engaged in medical treatments and practices that are counter to doctrine of the Catholic Church in the name of healthcare. Back in June, I reported that the Lepanto Institute published a sixty-four page report showing that CommonSpirit Health was performing sex change operations, were providing puberty blockers for kids, and they were providing hormone transition therapies for people desiring the transition from one sex to another.
Shortly after the publication of the report, Michael Hichborn, Founder and CEO of the LePanto Institute, received a tip that CommonSpirit Health was actually partnered up with an organization that was providing abortions.
I interviewed Mr. Hichborn and he told me that back in 2021, CommonSpirit Health partnered up with a group called Tia Women’s Health, which started out as a birth control App back in 2017. Tia expanded into the realm of having brick and mortar locations to create a “day spa like experience” for women “so a woman could go in and get a nice silk robe, she could have the aromatics, she can get acupuncture…can get a gynecological exam, she can get her practitioner to look her over…all the things that are wrapped into women’s health, and also they would give out birth control.” Hichborn says they had every intention of offering abortion services as well and began doing so.
When they partnered with CommonSpirit Health in 2021, CommonSpirit would help Tia deliver these locations. There was an understanding that CommonSpirit would refer women to said locations for women’s services and Tia in return would recommend patients to CommonSpirit Health and their hospitals.
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Hichborn describes that the goal here may be to provide an alternative to ‘Planned Parenthood’ which has a tarnished reputation. He claims that Tia Women’s Health wants to have “more of a woman’s day spa experience” for women, getting reproductive services in an environment like you are getting your nails done. Tia Women’s Health is also promoting DEI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and their website claims that “All gender identities & pronouns will be respected, affirmed & celebrated at Tia.”
I asked Michael if the Archbishops in the Catholic Church have weighed in on this and he said “Zero…they haven’t said a word.”
According to the CommonSpirit Health home page, the group was formed in 2019 through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. CommonSpirit is one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., with more than 1,000 care sites in 21 states coast to coast, serving 20 million patients in big cities and small towns across America, according to their website.
The question is, why is our nation’s largest Catholic healthcare operation offering health care services that are contrary to Catholic principles and where is the Catholic Church on these matters?