Catholic Hospital Sued Over Refusal to Perform Tubal Ligation

Townhall.com ^ | January 2, 2016 | Christine Rousselle

[Kaslin]

exactly

[sparklite2]

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.

[Jeff Chandler]

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

[ozaukeemom]

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.

[Darth Reardon]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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!

[Tax-chick]

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.

[navet97]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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

[Tax-chick]

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 ...

[ozaukeemom]

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

[Mrs. Don-o]

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

[Tax-chick]

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?

[Mrs. Don-o]

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

[Tax-chick]

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.

[jimt]

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

[Salman]

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

[RedWhiteBlue]

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