Mercy Hospital in Durango, the only hospital with labor and delivery services within 45 miles, plans to stop performing tubal ligation, a female sterilization procedure, in spring next year because ...

Mercy Hospital in Durango no longer offers tubal ligations, the female sterilization procedure known as getting one’s tubes tied, at the time of cesarean sections. The hospital stopped providing the ...

Tubal ligation is a form of female sterilization in which a doctor or surgeon blocks or removes the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy permanently. Some people refer to this as “having your tubes ...

Ashley Steffen went under the knife about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, reversing the constitutional right to abortion. Steffen, 37, of Lansing, is among a ...

DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) regarding Ascension Providence Hospital’s ...

There are two sterilization methods for women who choose to end childbearing: ligation and removal. Tubal sterilization can also decrease a woman's risk of some types of ovarian cancer by 30-50 ...

Sept. 27 (UPI) --The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed complaints with state and federal agencies alleging a Catholic hospital's refusal to grant a woman an exemption from religious ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno photographed on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno was recently fined almost $90,000 for wrongfully ...

A pregnant Oakland County woman is being denied a sterilization procedure — even though her doctor advised her that internal scarring has fused her uterus to her bladder and would make additional ...

Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno was recently fined almost $90,000 for wrongfully removing a Fallopian tube from a patient after a cesarean section birth, according to state ...

To the editor: The letter from a senior vice president at Catholic hospital chain Dignity Health defending its affiliation with UC San Francisco was accurate, but somewhat disingenuous. While patients ...