AmericanPapist Comments
Ann Carey is a top shelf Catholic journalist.
Sadly this is not the only problem with the Texas medical community. They also have a law which allows treatment to be removed from a patient regardless of an advanced directive, living will, etc. if a doctor and hospital ethics board says so. The law gives the patient and there family 10 days to find a transfer and then the remove treatment.
It seems that this has the potential to become a very big and damaging story.
damaging to whom and what?
Thomas,
If this stretches beyond the borders of Texas it could be incredibly damaging to Catholic credibility.
I already can see the headline, " Catholic Hospitals nationwide say OK to contraception; abortion."
My wife and I were happy to find out recently that our local Catholic hospital, where she will be giving birth to our third child, does not do sterilizations. Good for them, and I hope that they are more typical of Catholic hospitals than these Texas ones are.
In 1985 and 1989, as I was being checked into labor and delivery, I was asked a set of questions by the nurse. One was, "Are you having your tubes tied?" This was at St. Mary's in Knoxville, Tennessee. I personally reported this to the first bishop of Knoxville. But since he was outed on 20/20 a few years later, I can understand now why these sterilizations in a Catholic hospital weren't of too much concern to him. The successor bishop, Kurtz,may well have done something about it. I hope so.
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