It wasn't enough that Rebecca Chamorro was having her third baby delivered for free at the Mercy Catholic Medical Center Hospital in Redding, California - She wanted her tubes tied too.... But when the Catholic Hospital informed her that don't do that because its against the Catholic religion.... Freebie Rebecca Chamorro said she is going to SUE!!!!! I didn't sneak into this country to be denied services!!!!!

With two kids and another anchor baby on the way, Rebecca Chamorro decided her family was complete enough to have a monthly check for life. After deliberating with her family and her doctor, she elected to have a tubal ligation immediately following her C-section at the end of January, scheduled to take place at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California.

The rural Catholic hospital, however, denied Chamorro's request — because the church doesn't approve of women getting their tubes tied.

In a lawsuit filed on Chamorro's behalf on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced it is suing Dignity Health, the Catholic hospital network to which Mercy belongs, claiming the refusal to provide a physician-approved tubal ligation is discriminatory and violates California law. According to the suit, Dignity has allowed women to undergo postpartum sterilization in some cases despite church guidelines, which the hospital cited in its refusal to grant Chamorro's request.

The network claims it rejected her tubal ligation based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, known as ERDs, a set of health care directives outlined by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that forbids direct sterilization. ERDs also ban some prenatal genetic tests, other forms of contraception and abortion — even when a woman's life is at risk — because they are "intrinsically immoral."

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