{"id":55070,"date":"2016-01-19T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/01\/19\/judge-rules-in-favor-of-catholic-hospital-that-refuses-to-sterilize-women\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:24:39","slug":"judge-rules-in-favor-of-catholic-hospital-that-refuses-to-sterilize-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/01\/19\/judge-rules-in-favor-of-catholic-hospital-that-refuses-to-sterilize-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge rules in favor of Catholic hospital that refuses to sterilize women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California judge recently ruled in favor of a Catholic hospital that refused to sterilize a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Chamorro requested that the Mercy Medical Center perform a 'post-partum tubal ligation.\u00e2?\u009d After the Catholic institution denied to perform the elective procedure, she sued them with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p>A judge ruled against Chamorro and the ACLU's emergency request earlier this month. He just recently made his earlier ruling permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Ernest Goldsmith explained, 'There\u00e2??s no law that says that hospitals are mandated to perform sterilizations.\u00e2?\u009d He added that forcing them to do so would violate their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>It's a small victory for religious freedom advocates in the United States. The greater fear is that Catholic hospitals will eventually be forced to perform abortions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops President Joseph Kurtz recently vowed that 'we will continue to reach out to the White House and Congressional leaders untiringly until proper protections are guaranteed.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>ATO<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:YA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 19, 2016. It's a victory for religious freedom advocates in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2U0QTNTmxKA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcatholichospint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}