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Catholicob
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I am an obgyn doctor and seeking employment that will allow me to follow the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Directives for Catholic Healthcare. My first job offer was in a Catholic hospital and clinic and they struggled with the fact that I will not prescribe contraception. Their doctors do, on a generic prescription pad, and also perform sterilizations at a secular hospital even though their income is entirely from the Catholic entity which uses its employees to arrange the procedures and bill for them. My next potential job offer is with a group of doctors that is owned by a Catholic health system and practices in its Catholic hospital. The doctors are unsure if they will hire me because I refuse to perform tubal ligations. They say the hospital does not get between the doctor and patient so they are permitted to do them. What do I do? Do I accept that I cannot work as an obgyn? Do I go to their bishops or the nuns at the top? I feel like I belong there more than they do. But these hospitals are infiltrated with either non-Catholics or those of the cafeteria type.