Catholic Hospital Denies Mother's Choice For Tubal Ligation Minutes Before Surgery
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Hospital Denies Mother's Choice For Tubal Ligation Minutes Before Surgery - Will IL Pass New Law?
After several miscarriages and a decision not to have any more children, Angela Valavanis, a mother of two, was denied getting her tubes tied after delivering her second child. She was not told tubal ligation, the second most popular form of birth control, was impermissible at the hospital where she was being treated, and Valavanis was told only minutes before the surgery was to take place. Now a new Illinois law pursued by the ACLU/American Civil Liberties Union would ensure other women in the state would not have to go through the same experience as Valavanis.
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Under federal law, religious hospitals can choose not to allow sterilization and other forms of birth control. Valavanis says she understands a doctor not wanting to perform a procedure based on religious beliefs. This is different. The institution never made it clear their policies would not allow tubal ligation. To make matters worse, Valavanis was told she should wait months to have the tubal litigation surgery.
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This is not an isolated case, and the denial of tubal ligation experienced by Valavanis two years ago, often affects lower income women. One study by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows that these same women often end up pregnant within a year. Once again the religions beliefs imposed upon lower income women, denying them birth control and sterilization, often result in unintended pregnancies and ultimately abortions - the very thing 'pro-life' religious individuals and institutions claim they want to prevent.
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