TN Hospital Denies Woman Sterilization Surgery, Citing Her “Sacred Fertility”
TN Hospital Denies Woman Sterilization Surgery, Citing Her “Sacred Fertility”
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Tennessee Hospital Denies Woman Sterilization Surgery, Citing Duty to “Sacred Fertility”
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/187619
A Tennessee woman who sought to undergo sterilization surgery last week was abruptly blocked from receiving the procedure, with hospital staff informing her they decided they had a “duty to protect her sacred fertility.” The woman, Mojo Foster, sought a salpingectomy, a type of surgery that removes fallopian tubes, after several years of trying various birth control methods to no avail.
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