hen the only hospital in Durango with a maternity ward decided that it would no longer let women get their tubes tied, there was no public announcement.
Mercy Hospital’s website doesn’t spell it out, either.
Instead, a read-between-the-lines statement added to the Centura Health hospital’s website in September noted that Mercy is “responsible for conducting itself in a manner consistent with the ethical principles of the Catholic church ministry.” The hospital had recently completed a “reeducation” of hospital staff and board members regarding the church’s ethical and religious directives, it said, adding that “patients are fully informed of all treatment options.”
Doctors who deliver babies at Mercy said they were told that beginning April 15, they can no longer provide post-cesarean-section tubal ligations,
CENTURA AND THE DIOCESE R DICTATING YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS.....SUMMIT COUNTY IS INCLUDED,WHEN DOES OUTRAGE BECOME THE PREDOMINATE POSTURE.......THIS DECISION IS A HUGE MONETARY MOMENT......HAVING TO TRAVEL TO ANOTHER LOCATION,AFTER GIVING BIRTH,TO GET YOUR TUBES TIED....CAN U SAY CLASS ACTION SUIT?
