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Hospital's Religious Ethics Committee Cancels Woman's Sterilization Procedire

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6 days ago

WSMVWe’ve all heard stories of women who seek out sterilization procedures only to be told no because they’re too young and may change their minds, or that the surgeon would perform it, but only if their husband signed off. Well, it’s still happening. A Tennessee woman experienced this in real life when, while waiting in pre-op with an IV in her arm, nurses informed her that her salpingectomy (Fallopian tube removal) had been cancelled. The reason: the hospital’s religious ethics committee felt it had a “duty to protect her sacred fertility,” and a Tennessee law passed last year allows for suc...