We’re aren’t discussing whether or not people are terrible. We’re discussing whether or not it is appropriate to assume malice over ignorance in this case.
But if you
really want to say that because people are terrible then this person must be acting maliciously, then I say that because people are terrible then you must rape altar boys. (Again, not literally saying that. Just making a rhetorical point, though if you demande I tone it down, then I’ll just say that you’re only assuming malice by self-projection, again under the same rhetorical point.)
False equivalence: Things like rape are, by their nature, mistreatment. Seeking a medical operation is not.
Being common knowledge among those who care deeply about the subject (in this case Catholic teaching) does not translate to common knowledge among the general population. One would think that it is common knowledge that the Church teachings the Eucharist is Christ’s literal body and blood, yet
even many Catholics don’t know that that is what the Church teaches. For that reason, it seems awfully presumptuous to assume that this person was aware of this relatively less common teaching on hysterectomies, especially since we don’t know how much the doctor led on that it might take place, given that they were “barred”, at least according to the article. (And on a personal level, it wasn’t until college that I learned Catholics were against abortion, contraception, etc., and I only learned that because I started looking more deeply at what other Christian groups believed.)
Granted, if you can actually show that this is common knowledge, then I’ll grant you that. But again, you have to show that. You can’t just simply say it is, because studies on other “common knowledge” matters have shown that they weren’t as “common knowledge” as we thought.
Except this person, to my knowledge, hasn’t claimed to have sought the procedure so that they could sue, so your analogy hardly applies here, since they haven’t said anything in line with how we’d interpret malice.
One anecdote that barely delves into what was going on in the family’s lives beyond what suits your narrative hardly counts as a “pattern”.