11.   Community activists were upset over the potential loss of abortions and reproductive services at the secular hospitals.

12.   The grant is expected to assist four areas in reproductive health care services, the Manila-based bank said in a statement.

13.   The original measure wanted the AMA to support efforts to force Catholic hospitals to provide reproductive services such as sterilization.

14.   The resolution said the AMA should support existing law requiring health plans to provide access to reproductive services when they are a covered benefit.

15.   These types of joint operating agreements can allow coupled Roman Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals to avoid controversies over reproductive services.

16.   Tonge said the AMA will now work with Catholic hospitals to help steer patients to facilities that offer reproductive services when there are mergers in their community.