Posted on 08/25/2015 7:16:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Catholic hospital in California has agreed to permit a doctor to sterilize a woman after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened to file a lawsuit, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
"Rachel Miller, due to have her second child in late September, agreed with her husband that this would be her last pregnancy and decided she would be sterilized by tubal ligation after giving birth," the newspaper reported. Miller says that her insurance will not cover both childbirth and sterilization at any other hospital in a 150-mile radius.
Citing the US bishops’ healthcare directives, Mercy Medical Center in Redding initially refused to agree to the sterilization, but after the filing of the lawsuit "notified her doctor that it was reconsidering based on additional information the physician had provided," the newspaper reported. Subsequently, the hospital agreed to permit the sterilization.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicculture.org ...
Bow to Baal..
Solution...the hospital should have shut down their OB/GYN service effective immediately.
Chillingly, poetically, put.
Mercy Medical Center is part of Dignity Health. Dignity Health is not affiliated with the Church.
If you will recall, Dignity Health (formerly known as Catholic Healthcare West) is inexorably associated with Margaret McBride. You may recall her as the individual who was excommunicated by Bishop Olmsted (Phoenix) for allowing an abortion within a Catholic hospital in his diocese.
Catholic Healthcare West renamed itself as Dignity Health back in 2012. At the same time, they ceased to be Catholic (taking on a "non-denominational" stand). See here and here.
I point the above out not because I am trying to defend their actions, but to point out why you will hear absolute silence from the local bishop. You will hear nothing because they aren't Catholic.
Sadly, Catholic Culture got this one 100% wrong.
It seems that the wheat was separated from the chaff about 3 years ago.
I’m not even Roman Catholic and this hits me as hideously wrong.
All churches would do well to get back to their roots in the Lord. He is the one that makes it possible to do more than just complain.
The Roman Catholic Church hasn’t copyrighted the word Catholic any more than the Southern Baptists have copyrighted the word Baptist.
And so agencies can go around calling themselves Catholic or Baptist (or Lutheran or whatnot) and have nothing to do whatsoever with the mother worship organization.
Cowards.
Kneel before Zod.
And yet it seems funny (as in odd, not humorous). Why would that hospital have ever complained about or refused the request in the first place.
They are a bureaucracy. Bureaucracies don't change policies on a dime. They probably never really considered it until now.
Having said that, I'm not making a claim that they'd have done differently had they been a "Catholic" hospital...if there are even any genuine Catholic hospitals left in this country (most have morphed into faux-Catholic "hospital systems" so they don't have to listen to any troublesome local hierarchy that might exist when not convenient).
Contraception — Look too the predictions in Humanae Vitae.
Legally, you are right, the Church's name is not on the shingle hanging outside the front door. However, there is an issue here as the above excerpt makes clear.
Sterilization is not a part of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. There was a link to Catholicism, albeit tenuous. Now it's gone for good.
Every sperm is still sacred.
The Christian dominoes continue to fall.
People who use lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits to compel others to violate their religious beliefs disgust me. Even if those beliefs are wrong, this is still an act of evil.
Is trolling with sarcastic exaggerations "acting white" like voting is ?
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