Apparently, stupid is catching

[ms_interpret]

Women are no longer able to get tubal ligations at a Catholic-run hospital in Humboldt, Saskatchewan!Uhm, okay... WTF? This is a public hospital! And the only one in the area. This is seriously unethical. I'm sure the government won't let them get away with it for long. They'll either force them to do the procedures, or to pay for them to go to

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[sunnydale47]

Are they still doing vasectomies? No one mentioned that.

Actually it's mentioned in several articles. The hospital doesn't do vasectomies. But They hadn't been doing them even before this, because vasectomies aren't done in hospitals -- they're just office procedures. Consequently, vasectomies are performed at the Humboldt Clinic owned by the area's physicians and not under the St. Elizabeth's board. (It's noteworthy that vasectomies are covered under medicare in Saskatchewan, but not medicare in Alberta.) ...

While there are only slightly more vasectomies performed in Saskatchewan each year compared with tubal ligation surgeries, (1,898 in 2005-06 versus 1,511), tubal ligations have to be performed in hospitals because the surgical procedure requires an anesthetic. Tubal ligation surgery is usually done after a caesarean-section birth and is often required by mothers who have had multiple C-section births because of the dangers further pregnancies pose.
So if a woman is having a C-section and wants her tubes tied, she has to have two

[ms_interpret]

D'oh! I missed that. That'll teach me.

The middle ground would be paying the expenses of sending people to the nearest hospital that does them. It sucks, but it would be a decent enough compromise.

[watchewan]

The issues with tubal ligations in general piss me off. I understand that it is a major decision and some doctors are hesitant to perform them in case the woman changes her mind...but it's not fair that so many childfree woman are being denied the option! Meanwhile, any man can get a vasectomy whether he has children or not. Bullshit!! /rant

I'm assuming this hospital wants to stop doing them because it's Catholic and they don't believe in birth control?

[ms_interpret]

Yeah, that's the deal. It's remarkably stupid.

[lakinicoyote]

So, you live in Saskatchewan, then? ;-)

[ms_interpret]

No, actually. I live in British Columbia.

[lakinicoyote]

DAMN!
No reason. Anyway, yeah, I got the doperidone. I think I made a post about it, and commented but LJ is eating up the posts, lately.

[ms_interpret]

Okay... *baffled*

Good, I'm glad you got it. You never know with customs.