Reply #24: When I gave birth to my second daughter...

[PassingFair]

I told my doctor that if I need to have a C-Section
(my 1st child had to be delivered via C-Section), that
I would like to have my "tubes tied" while they were in there....

She told me that I'd have to find another doctor, because
she was only authorized to deliver in ONE hospital, which
happened to be a Catholic hospital, and that they wouldn't
allow the procedure on a healthy female.

I was flabberghasted...and not about to switch doctors
so close to my due date. It hadn't even OCCURRED to me
that my medical choices were going to be denied for religious
reasons.

This isn't some little hospital, either. This is the biggest
hospital in the region. Perhaps because it's run under Catholic
auspices, they have tax advantages that other hospitals do not.

I just know I wouldn't suggest that any other woman deliver a child there....