Judge: California hospital doesn't have to do tubal ligation

[_Abyssinia]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ordering a Catholic hospital in California to perform a tubal ligation sterilization procedure on a woman would violate its religious freedom, a San Francisco judge ruled Thursday.

“Religious-based hospitals have an enshrined place in American history and its communities, and the religious beliefs reflected in their operation are not to be interfered with by courts at this moment in history,” Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith said while finalizing his previous tentative ruling.

The decision came after Rebecca Chamorro, 33, filed a lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction that would require Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, to perform the procedure after she delivered her third baby.

bigstory.ap.org/article/900428e594a3494c9c52e19a40c65288/california-tubal-ligation-fight-heads-court-thursday

 

[spiderweb]

…not to be interfered with by courts at this moment in history

 

[phil19034]

Thanks be to God. However, the judge did leave the door open in his ruling, which is unfortunate.

 

[peter26]

May God bless this wise judge.

 

[_Abyssinia]

spiderweb:
I wonder what he meant by that.