Doctor protests after Catholic hospital bans sterilization procedure

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Doctor protests after Catholic hospital bans sterilization procedure

Women are no longer able to get tubal ligations at Catholic-run St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Humboldt, Sask.
The sterilization procedure had been banned at the hospital since the end of June, following a decision by the hospital board.
Now, a local family physician, Dr. Carrie Levick-Brown, has launched a petition to try to get the ban overturned.
“My initial reaction was somewhat of shock, disbelief and perhaps a group of people had been rushed into a misguided decision,” she said.

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I hope that the powers that be at** St. Elizabeth’s Hospital** have checked out (in depth) their legal rights before making this decision and that they now stick to their belief on this issue.
May God bless them.
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Catholic hospitals have no business performing something as radical and practically absolute as a tubal ligation.
 
As long as the procedure is for “birth control” this is a good decision. Now lets see if they will follow through with refusing to give out “scripts” for the pill and other non medical stuff.
 
This is, I suspect, why many Catholic hospitals in my area outsource the ob/gyn work to a different organization.
 
a_cermak said:
This is, I suspect, why many Catholic hospitals in my area outsource the ob/gyn work to a different organization.
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Out sourcing of services that are considered to be a “grave” sin is causing others to be led into sin by those that refer them to these services.

Counseling those that need help is much kinder.

I know of Catholic women that were sent to other places for these services and they were not told it was a “grave” sin to have these procedures done. Those women and men are now living with this on their consciences and although they have asked God for forgiveness they can not always forgive themselves.

The fact that society tends to lean toward the immoral does not make us all immoral. It is every Christians duty to help other avoid sin not tell them how and where to do so.
 
KathleenElsie said:
I know of Catholic women that were sent to other places for these services and they were not told it was a “grave” sin to have these procedures done. Those women and men are now living with this on their consciences and although they have asked God for forgiveness they can not always forgive themselves.
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How could they not know? Had they ever once been curious about their faith enough to know what it required? Or did they simply leave learning about it until their faith became important enough to them?

When I was Catholic, I differed with the Church on some issues, but I did know where the Church stood on those issues and how to find out where the Church stood.

Ok, I’ll admit I did not know the proper use of the sacrarium, I observed them rinsing towels that had been used to absorb spilled consecrated Species and therefore was under the impression that was where unneeded consecrated Species went, but I did know where to look to get the real skinny.
 
In the 1960 and 70’s there was a great silence on the subject. Some priests said yes, some said not, and others refused to say anything about it at all.

Now IMHO there is little or no reason or ability to deny the facts. But, then? well you go back and read about the times. It was an ungly and mostly confusing time of changing rules and expectations.
 
They had no Catechism? No access to documents like Humanae Vitae? No books they could read at their libraries? No access to the Pope’s speeches? Even some of Piux XII’s speeches dealt with the issues of sterilization.
 
Again it was the 1960’s and 1970’s and history will speak for itself. Nuns no longer in habits, the Catechism was about to change to reflect VatII and things not mentioned were sometimes taken as being eliminated from the “rules”.

Yes it was out there. But, the internet was not yet available to us to search and libraries had very limited information on Catholic beliefs.

The advent of the internet has opened our eyes to many of the things we were ignorant to. But, as said hind sight is 20/20/
 
And we heard that there are freedom of religion, like democracy, there are many lies in that.
 
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