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Related: About this forumCatholic hospital backs down on tubal ligation refusal
Catholic hospital backs down on tubal ligation refusalFacing a possible sex-discrimination lawsuit, a Catholic hospital in Redding reversed its position Monday and agreed to let a womans doctor sterilize her after she gives birth next month.
Mercy Medical Center, owned by Dignity Health of San Francisco, the states largest private health care company, had previously refused to allow Rachel Miller to undergo a tubal ligation, citing Catholic hospitals Ethical and Religious Directives against sterilization.
After attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union said they would file a discrimination suit if Miller was being denied pregnancy-based care on religious grounds, the hospital notified her doctor that it was reconsidering based on additional information the physician had provided. On Monday, the deadline the lawyers had set for a response, the ACLU said Mercy Medical Center had agreed to the surgery.
That solves Millers problem, said ACLU attorney Elizabeth Gill, but it wont avoid a future legal confrontation unless the hospital chain changes its policy.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Catholic-hospital-backs-down-on-tubal-ligation-6463205.php
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Catholic hospital backs down on tubal ligation refusal (Original Post)
Novara
Aug 2015
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riversedge
(70,464 posts)1. I remember many many moons ago working at a large Catholic
Hospital (about 1,000 beds) with a big obstetric Dept. Women would have to be transferred to another hospital after the birth of thei babes for a tubal. I see things do not change (well, it is a Catholic hospital so guess I never expected it to change). But it makes NO sense since a tubal ligation prevents an egg from ever meeting up with the sperm. No meet-up = no fertilization. No this would be ok with the anti abortion folks right?
But with the Vatican --marriage (and sex ) is for procreation. Hence the problem.
niyad
(113,966 posts)2. every time I hear somebody saying that the fact that the catholic church has so many hospitals
should not be a problem, I want to scream, or hit that person with a clue-by-four. especially in areas where that hospital is the ONLY one available.