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Catholic Hospital Sued Over Refusal to Perform Tubal Ligation
Townhall.com ^ | January 2, 2016 | Christine Rousselle

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?


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: amcommieliarsunion; catholicinstitution; hospospital
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To: Gay State Conservative

exactly


21 posted on 01/02/2016 2:03:44 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Louis Foxwell

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.


22 posted on 01/02/2016 2:06:21 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Kaslin

I was not aware that Dignity Health was Catholic. I thought they changed their name to avoid oversight by Bishop Olmstead in Phoenix.


23 posted on 01/02/2016 2:12:10 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (I shot Schroedinger's cat with Chekhov's gun.)
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To: Kaslin

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.


24 posted on 01/02/2016 2:25:45 PM PST by ozaukeemom (All the special snowflakes still make an ordinary snowball.)
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To: ozaukeemom

They didn’t actually say “closest”. Cute trick, huh?


25 posted on 01/02/2016 2:31:38 PM PST by Darth Reardon (Is it any wonder I'm not the president?)
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To: sparklite2; Louis Foxwell
It's true that "free expercise of religion" is not an unlimited thing. The law still frowns on throwing virgins into Hawaiian volcanoes for instance.

The usual rules for abridging religious free exercise are threefold:

  1. Compelling state interest (e.g. preventing murder)
  2. Least imposition on religious liberty (e.g. you can't throw in a virgin, but OK, you can throw in a picture of a virgin and a package of chicken breasts)
  3. Least degree of church-state entanglement (state can't determine what pictures or poultry you can use, church can't demand state subsidy for the newly reformed rites)

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!

26 posted on 01/02/2016 2:32:14 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Thank you, thank you, just throw some money into the cup, don't forget to tip the waiters.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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.


27 posted on 01/02/2016 3:26:05 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Kaslin

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


28 posted on 01/02/2016 3:30:38 PM PST by navet97
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To: Tax-chick

Happy New Year, my dear! May you have sanctity. Safety, yes, but if you have to choose beiwixt one and the other, sanctity.


29 posted on 01/02/2016 3:55:10 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." - Yogi Berra)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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 ...


30 posted on 01/02/2016 3:56:56 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Darth Reardon

Ahhhh yes. Mmmmm, cannot believe I fell for it. smh


31 posted on 01/02/2016 3:57:51 PM PST by ozaukeemom (All the special snowflakes still make an ordinary snowball.)
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To: Tax-chick

Oh, true. Mostly, God help us, we want to cut a deal.


32 posted on 01/02/2016 3:59:58 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (It's 'you tickle me an' I tickle you' betwixt him an' de ol' Scratch.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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?


33 posted on 01/02/2016 4:06:25 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Tax-chick

We’ll speak more of this later. I’m off to Adoration.


34 posted on 01/02/2016 4:24:09 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("May the Lord bless you and keep you; may He turn to you His countenance and give you peace.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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.


35 posted on 01/02/2016 4:25:23 PM PST by Tax-chick (Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
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To: Kaslin

This suit should be thrown out of court with prejudice and the plaintiff and her lawyers forced to pay attorneys’ fees and punitively fined !


36 posted on 01/02/2016 5:56:06 PM PST by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s about deliberately creating a hospital shortage by forcing the Catholic hospitals to close.


37 posted on 01/02/2016 6:28:42 PM PST by Salman
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To: ozaukeemom

A quick search shows that there is indeed another hospital right in Redding where the procedure can be done: http://www.shastaregional.com/


38 posted on 01/03/2016 11:02:44 AM PST by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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