None of what you typed applies to my (our situation). My wife has a genetic condition that predisposes her to blood clots. What I really find offensive is your instant dismisal of the hospital without the facts. It wasn't a nominally Catholic hospital that did the tubal btw, it was a Sister of Charity hospital that concluded that under the circumstances, the tubal was acceptable.
I'll have to tell you, as a Catholic who has studied these issues, the hospital was wrong according to Catholic doctrine. Sterilization is not morally acceptable. It's acceptable to remove a diseased organ, even if sterility is an unavoidable side effect, but a tubal does meet that qualification.
You may think that they did the right thing, and you're free to do that, but Aquinasfan and I know our religion well enough that we can tell you with 100% certainty that the hospital was not being faithful to Catholic doctrine.
What was the likelihood of it happening again? Why not use NFP? Why not drugs? I don't know if they were in existence then, but they're available today, which is another argument against a permanent "solution" like a tubal.
What I really find offensive is your instant dismisal of the hospital without the facts.
I can only base my judgment using the facts at hand.
It wasn't a nominally Catholic hospital that did the tubal btw, it was a Sister of Charity hospital that concluded that under the circumstances, the tubal was acceptable.
Maybe, maybe not.