The church has slowly started to acquire more and more hospitals. Recent mergers in Washington state between religious and secular hospital systems, including one between Virginia Mason and Catholic CHI Franciscan Health in 2021, have allowed hospitals to stop providing elective abortions, even though they are a protected right in the state.
No big deal though. Dr. Jesus has got our back and anything related to Jesus is always tax-free! If you don’t tax an organization it can start buying up other companies that are taxed. Hospitals have been operating like this for years and using their tax-free status to edge out secular private ones.
Hospitals should be a public service, not a private for-profit companies and they certainly shouldn’t have tax-free status just because they are associated with a religion.
