Editing Consistent life ethic (section)

===Health care===
Bernardin understood the consistent life ethic as implying a societal responsibility to provide adequate health care for all, especially the poor.<ref>{{cite speech |last=Bernardin |first=Joseph Cardinal |date=1985 |title=The Consistent Ethic of Life and Health Care Systems |conference=Foster McGaw Triennial Conference |location=Chicago, IL }}</ref><ref>{{cite speech |last=Bernardin |first=Joseph Cardinal |date=18 May 1986 |title=The Consistent Ethic of Life: The Challenge and the Witness of Catholic Health Care |location=Catholic Medical Center Jamaica, New York |url=http://priestsforlife.org/magisterium/bernardinjamaica.html |access-date=29 July 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite speech |last=Bernardin |first=Joseph Cardinal |date=4 October 1986 |title=Address: Consistent Ethic of Life Conference |location=Portland, Oregon |url=http://priestsforlife.org/magisterium/bernardinportland.html |access-date=29 July 2017 }}</ref>

As such, appeals to the consistent life ethic have been made in support of [[universal health care]].<ref name="LIC-2009">{{cite journal | title=On health care, a consistent ethic of life | journal=The Long Island Catholic | volume=48 | issue=23 | date=30 September 2009 | url=http://www.newspaper.licatholic.org/editorial/health-care-consistent-ethic-life | access-date=2 February 2017 | archive-date=3 February 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203083326/http://www.newspaper.licatholic.org/editorial/health-care-consistent-ethic-life | url-status=dead }}</ref>