Rebecca Chamorrow, thirty three, and her husband are expecting their third crumb cruncher. They decided that three were enough, so she asked their obstetrician to perform a tubal ligation after she delivers the child. But the hospital where she planned to deliver the baby, as a Kapa hospital, a Mercy Medical Center in Reading, California. The hospital's religious principles do
not permit tubals, so the request was turned down. There are other hospitals that do the procedure, albeit some distance away, so it shouldn't have become a major issue, but it has. The A. C. L U and Rebecca Shamarro sued the medical center and the healthcare provider Dignity Health, which operates thirty facilities in California, for sexual discrimination. Now the case hasn't gained much nationwide attention, but it was a big
deal locally. Los Angeles Times recently published a scathing column backing the lawsuit, demanding the religious values of the healthcare provider be brushed aside. This week, San Francisco judge Ernest Goldsmith upheld the previous ruling that Mercy Medical Center was not engaging in discrimination by denying Miss shamorrow the procedure. He noted the hospital's policy of not offering sterilizations also applies to men, and pointed out the couple could get
the procedure done somewhere else. Now, don't think for one minute that this ruling is the end of the story. The left will not rest. Liberals will exhaust every avenue of wage war on those who dare to exercise their religious values, particularly when it comes to the birth of a child. M