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Article: Survival vs. directives; One Catholic hospital opts to permit tubal ligations to stay viable.(Saint Louise Regional Hospital, Gilroy, California)(Brief Article)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- November 20, 2000
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Facing the loss of patients as well as revenue, a small Roman Catholic hospital in California has decided to permit tubal ligations on a limited basis to help keep itself afloat financially, MODERN HEALTHCARE has learned.
The case may be the first in which a struggling Catholic hospital has bent the canonical rules against such procedures in the name of money.
"If a Catholic hospital isn't able to address . . . certain (individual) cases, it will lose gynecological services, then begin to lose contracts, then viability, and could ultimately go out of business," said the Rev. Charles McDermott, vicar episcopal for theological and canonical affairs at the ...