Today’s Washington Post has a decent front-page story by Rob Stein on Catholic doctors offering practices based on their own religious beliefs. Stein is fairly respectful, and quotes freely from pro-life doctors and discusses the practice of natural family planning.

It’s only natural that the story would include critics. The first one is R. Alta Charo of the University of Wisconsin, who complains “Welcome to the era of balkanized medicine.” (As if there already weren’t alternative medical practices in the left-wing counterculture.) Stein presents Charo as simply a non-ideological critic. Too bad he didn’t mention the left-wing abortion-advocacy credentials from her own biography: a member of the board of Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute and the “National Medical Advisory Committee” of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Perhaps there’s a little ideology in her interpretation, not just a devotion to health care.