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California Medical Association seeks to join ACLU suit against Catholic hospital system
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/04/27/60056/ca-medical-association-seeks-to-join-aclu-s-tubal/The California Medical Association is seeking to join the ACLU of Northern California in its lawsuit against a Catholic hospital system over one of its facilities' refusal on religious grounds to allow a doctor to perform a tubal ligation after a planned Cesarean section.
The Medical Association says it's illegal for Dignity Health's hospital administrators to intervene in the decision to tie a woman's tubes after a C-section.
"It's the physician, with his or her patient, who should make that decision," says Dr. Ruth Haskins, the Medical Association's president-elect. "It should not be administrators, who are laypeople, making medical decisions that have such a consequence."
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The suit stems from a case at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, one of Dignity Health's 29 hospitals across the state. Mercy Medical says its refusal to perform the procedure was based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Directives - followed by all of California's 35 Catholic hospitals - prohibit birth control, abortion and, in most cases, sterilization.
The Medical Association says it's illegal for Dignity Health's hospital administrators to intervene in the decision to tie a woman's tubes after a C-section.
"It's the physician, with his or her patient, who should make that decision," says Dr. Ruth Haskins, the Medical Association's president-elect. "It should not be administrators, who are laypeople, making medical decisions that have such a consequence."
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The suit stems from a case at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, one of Dignity Health's 29 hospitals across the state. Mercy Medical says its refusal to perform the procedure was based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, written by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Directives - followed by all of California's 35 Catholic hospitals - prohibit birth control, abortion and, in most cases, sterilization.
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I hear Ligations R' Us is having a special this week: one free vasectomy with any tubal ligation, or 25% off for anyone newly married to their bicycle.
