Update: Catholic Bishops Bash ACLU Lawsuit

I reported on this disturbing development earlier in the week.

Now the bishops are responding:

The nation's Catholic bishops are bashing an ACLU lawsuit against the Bush administration to make them provide abortions for victims of sex trafficking. The pro-abortion law firm sued the Department of Health and Human Services saying it shouldn't let the USCCB prohibit abortions for those women.

.... In a statement sent to LifeNews.com on Thursday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the ACLU lawsuit is "without merit and an affront to religious liberty."

Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee for Migration and Refugee Services, said the ACLU would only further exploit women by making the USCCB work with abortion businesses.

.... Wester told LifeNews.com that the lawsuit would hurt, not help, trafficking victims and would violate the First Amendment religious liberty rights of the USCCB.(LifeNews)

Suit up, folks, there's more to come I'm sure.