Article: No `pastoral exceptions'; Catholic Church clamps down on tubal ligations, vasectomies at North Dakota clinic.(Brief Article)

Article: Survival vs. directives; One Catholic hospital opts to permit ...
Modern Healthcare;  November 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 78 of the type of tubal ligations that could be permitted ... performing virtually all tubal ligations under the Ethical ... Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. The ... initially barred tubal ligations. But Cohen, a vocal ...

Article: WOMEN'S SERVICE CUT: ROME'S SCRUTINY ENDS HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENT ON ...
Modern Healthcare;  October 4, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... street from Doctors Hospital, is part of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, a national system with 70 hospitals. At the ... led St. Vincent and physicians to find a way to provide tubal ligations. St. Vincent consolidated its women's services at Doctors ...

Article: Non-surgical tubal ligations moving forward
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Non-surgical tubal ligations moving forward By MARILYNN MARCHIONE of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, May 7, 2001 Chicago -- A new way to do tubal ligations through the vagina and without any abdominal incisions has shown promise in its first ...

Article: No extra risk from tubal ligations
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 7, 2000 ;     325 words ... ... year study, conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggested that women who have tubal ligations may have shorter, less painful periods than other women. During tubal ligation, the fallopian tubes are cut and tied ...

Article: Are you being denied the best birth control?(health)(tubal ...
Marie Claire;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...It's legal. It's reliable. It's safer than the alternatives. So why do women have such a hard time getting doctors to tie their tubes? Three Marie Claire readers tell how they were questioned, lectured, or flat-out denied the contraceptive they wanted most. (P.S.: Men can demand--and get--a

Article: Catholic health care aims to make 'Catholic' a ...
National Catholic Reporter;  July 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... president Fr. Michael Place, while Catholic health care is "balancing ethical principles ... as those raised by providing tubal ligations] post-Brackenridge" with ... practical demands, said new Catholic Health Association chair Richard Statuto ...

Article: Oak Park, Ill., Hospital Joins Chicago-Based Catholic ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Care after the Chicago-based Catholic health-care system agreed to spin ... facility will be governed by Catholic health-care directives prohibiting ... including contraception, tubal ligations and distribution of so-called ...