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.
I'm not a Catholic, and I have no problem with birth control. We'll never agree on this issue, but in the end it's not really an issue we have to agree on.
What we do agree on is that the culture of promiscuity is out of control. Marriage is becoming a dirty word, and hooking up is a way of life for young adults now. Children are by and large fatherless, and we as a society we're greatly suffering for it.
You can be free to disagree with our choice for my wife to work and me to stay home with the children (13 years in June), you can be free to disagree with our choice to use sterilization as a means of birth control. We can disagree on a lot of things. Let's however agree that both want to put families first, and that we're sinking into a pit that's not family friendly.