Boston cardinal supports disputed hospital plan

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, responding for the first time to criticism of a proposed joint venture between Catholic hospitals and an insurance provider that would cover abortion procedures, said yesterday that the venture would be a good thing so long as the archdiocesan hospitals do not provide the abortions or benefit from them.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, responding for the first time to criticism of a proposed joint venture between Catholic hospitals and an insurance provider that would cover abortion procedures, said yesterday that the venture would be a good thing so long as the archdiocesan hospitals do not provide the abortions or benefit from them.

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