Catholic Hospitals and Tubal Ligations

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Wednesday August 12, 2015 · 4:21 AM PDT

2015/08/12 · 04:21

This is my first diary, so please bear with me. There seems to be a great deal of confusion about what is and isn't legal, the basis for the legality, and how to solve the problem encountered by the Illinois woman who found herself heading for the OR, birth plan saying that she would have a tubal in the event of a C/S in hand, only to be told that it was not possible. This was, frankly, a blue moon case, where the woman had gone to an OB for years, she had one healthy child, had had several spontaneous abortions (the medical term for a miscarriage) and had, quite reasonably, decided she'd had enough. Her OB had sold the practice to a Catholic group and had not informed the patient. The fact that she is going after the hospital rather than the doctor is strange, to say the least.

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