Mercy Sister Margaret Mary McBride, the former vice president of mission integration at St. JosephÕs Hospital and Medical Clinic in Phoenix, is pictured in a 2008 photo. According to Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, the nun was “automatically excommunicated” because she concurred in an ethics committee decision to abort the child of a gravely ill woman at the hospital in 2009. (CNS photo/J.D. Long-Garcia, The Catholic Sun) (May 18, 2010) See MCBRIDE May 18, 2010.