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Archive > July, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 7

Medicine & Religion: A Contentious Mix

A Catholic health system's decision to ban surgical sterilizations has riled a group of surgeons.

Stephanie Wasek, Associate Editor

SMITHVILLE, TENN. - No more surgical sterilizations, said the Catholic health system a month after it acquired the Baptist hospital. Over our dead bodies, said a group of surgeons that set out to open a surgery center where they'd be free to perform tubal ligations and vasectomies. Not so fast, said the state Health Services and Development Agency (HSDA) in denying the surgeons' application for a certificate of need (CON), a move that effectively outlawed surgical sterilizations in this rural county. Throw in charges of deception and you've got a medical turf war played out against a backdrop of surgical sterilization and Catholic canon.

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