The following comes from a January 5 Action News Now article:
A San Francisco Superior Court Judge denied a motion Tuesday brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Catholic-affiliated medical group, Dignity Health.
Dignity Health, which operates Mercy Medical Center in Redding, has denied women various procedures related to reproductive health in the past citing religious directives. The American Civil Liberties Union, the organization leading the charge against the hospital, contends that withholding pregnancy-related care for reasons other than medical considerations is illegal in California.
The motion denial is a victory for Dignity Health and Mercy Medical, which took heat last month for denying tubal ligations, a form of sterilization, on religious principles. The motion would have granted Rebecca Chamorro a restraining order against the hospital, allowing her doctor to perform the procedure.
But the battle is far from over. The ACLU plans to file a new motion and expects to be back in court sometime next week.
The ACLU has no standing in the case.
At least this round was won by the good guys. Pray that religious freedom and conscience rights apply to the Catholics, not just the dissenters.
Tell the godless atheists to build their own hospitals and do all the reprehensible procedures there! Catholics built hospitals, churches and colleges before anyone in this country and now all the late comers want to tell the Church how they can be run. Long before the govt. provided medicaid, the Church was providing health service free to the needy. Now that the govt. has it’s nose in everyone’s healthcare they want to tell us what is moral (or in this case immoral). How twisted is that? I say those who don’t like our ethics can go elsewhere or build their own facilities.