An email:

Your post might be seen as conceding that FOCA wouldn’t require Catholic hospitals to close. But wouldn’t/mightn’t its discrimination ban compel governments to require those taking part in government-funded health programs to provide abortion services? And wouldn’t/mightn’t that put Catholic hospitals to the choice of performing abortions or closing down?

No such concession was intended. Those could indeed be effects of the law. Another email:

This is the same maneuver liberals are pulling on the Fairness Doctrine. They act like we’re crazy to see it as a threat because they have no immediate plans that we know of to bring it up. So we should just trust them no matter how many liberal lawmakers declare their support for bringing back the doctrine.

In the case of FOCA, there may be greater reason for alarm. An Obama spokesman suggested last year that he does not see reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine as a priority, but he himself endorsed FOCA during the campaign.

Update: Another email: “When Obama ran ads saying McCain would make abortion illegal, did anyone in the press say boo? Like that was going to happen.”