Posted on 01/02/2016 1:01:40 PM PST by Kaslin
Mercy Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Redding, CA., is being sued by the ACLU after it said it would not perform a tubal ligation procedure during a scheduled cesarian section delivery later this month. Catholic doctrine prohibits contraception, including permanent sterilization like a tubal ligation or vasectomy.
In its ongoing dispute with Catholic hospital officials in Redding, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Dignity Health, contending the hospital system is unlawfully denying women's rights to contraception.
The suit is filed on behalf of Physicians for Reproductive Health and a Redding woman, Rebecca Chamorro, who requested a tubal ligation at Mercy Medical Center in Redding during her scheduled cesarean section in late January. Chamorro and her husband, who have two other children, want the procedure as a permanent form of contraception.
"The overarching issue is about women's ability to access basic health care. It's an incredibly common procedure used by a significant number of married women, but it's being denied based on religious doctrine. It’s a real problem,†said Elizabeth Gill, senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California.
A hospital willing to do the procedure is located about 70 miles from Mercy Medical Center.
What are your thoughts? Should a hospital be ordered to ignore its own doctrine?
exactly
A government that demands disobedience to one’s faith is a dictatorship.
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Scientologists, Islamists, and Aryan Nation agree with you wholeheartedly.
I was not aware that Dignity Health was Catholic. I thought they changed their name to avoid oversight by Bishop Olmstead in Phoenix.
70 miles is the closest to find a willing provider? Really? That makes no sense unless this is the middle of nowhere. I live in Podunk and there are 3 hospitals within 20 miles! Not to mention, other medical facilities. If I need some care, I want someone who is willingly providing it.
They didn’t actually say “closest”. Cute trick, huh?
The usual rules for abridging religious free exercise are threefold:
Learned this from Trey Gowdy.
I know it's not a perfect analogy, but they can't all be jewels.
Happy New Year to you, sparklite2!
Happy New Year to you, Louis Foxwell!
Happy New Year, Mrs. Don-o! May she be a d*mn sight better than the last one, and may we all be home before she’s over.
My 3rd (and last) child was born in a Catholic Hospital 1992. They wouldn’t due a tubal right after the birth. The Dr was affiliated with another hospital and we scheduled it. NO BIG DEAL!
Epilogue: The day of the procedure my wife had a cold and the hospital said the procedure couldn’t be done. My wife thought it was a “sign” from God. I wound up getting a vasectomy. What a boner! NOT! lol
Happy New Year, my dear! May you have sanctity. Safety, yes, but if you have to choose beiwixt one and the other, sanctity.
We’re currently reading the First Book of the Maccabees. I’ve been thinking a lot about holiness vs. safety. If only Cecil B. DeMille had made a movie about the Maccabees ...
Ahhhh yes. Mmmmm, cannot believe I fell for it. smh
Oh, true. Mostly, God help us, we want to cut a deal.
Judas Maccabeus may have gone overboard in the other direction. I don’t think we are called by God to kill anyone in our churches who isn’t 100% up to snuff.
Nonetheless, it’s a thought-provoking concept. Where am I called to heroism beyond what I think is within my capacity? What accommodations with the world are too far?
We’ll speak more of this later. I’m off to Adoration.
Have a lovely time! I’m off to laundry and then to play an impressionistic version of Candy Land that changes each day according to Kathleen’s whim.
This suit should be thrown out of court with prejudice and the plaintiff and her lawyers forced to pay attorneys’ fees and punitively fined !
It’s about deliberately creating a hospital shortage by forcing the Catholic hospitals to close.
A quick search shows that there is indeed another hospital right in Redding where the procedure can be done: http://www.shastaregional.com/
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