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A Catholic hospital that refused to allow its facilities to be used for breast implant surgery on a man who had undergone a sex-change operation has backed down and will now allow the procedure.
In 2006, a doctor told Charlene Hastings, 57, that Seton Medical Center in Daly City would not allow him to perform breast-enhancement surgery on a transsexual. Hastings then called Seton to learn more, reported the Jan. 5 San Jose Mercury News. Hastings told the newspaper the inquiry elicited the following responses from a Seton surgical coordinator: “It’s not God’s will,” and “God made you a man.”
A 2006 memo sent by Seton Medical Center to physicians said that “transgender procedures or procedures that are part of the transgendering process may not be performed at Seton, as Seton is a Catholic Hospital.”
On Dec. 21, Hastings filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against the hospital, a part of the Daughters of Charity Health System. The suit alleges that Seton violated state law, which allows religiously-based hospitals to refuse to perform abortions but makes no religious exemption for a denial of elective surgery to transgenders.
On Feb. 27, the Bay Area television broadcast CBS 5 News announced that “transgender Charlene Hastings has claimed moral victory against Catholics.” In what CBS 5 News called “a veiled mea culpa,” the hospital issued a written statement to CBS 5, in which a spokesman said, “We regret any confusion that may have come from this situation. We want this patient and her physician to know that they are welcome at Seton Medical Center.”
Seton, however, says Catholic teaching still prohibits it to accommodate sex-reversal procedures.
“I’m glad that they’ve recognized that they’ve made a mistake,” said Hastings in an interview with CBS 5 News. But her attorney, Chris Dolan, was more belligerent. Referring to the hospital’s statement, he told CBS 5, “I don’t know where the confusion is, other than perhaps they were confused that that was illegal.” Despite the hospital’s reversal, Dolan said the lawsuit for monetary damages would go forward. “Like any good religious experience, first you need enlightenment and then you need atonement,” said Dolan. “And what we have here perhaps is a glimpse of enlightenment. Has it changed their heart? I don’t think so. Will it change their practice? It better.”
Hasting, however, will not get his surgery at Seton, saying he is not “comfortable” because he would feel the hospital would be “doing it under duress.”
As CBS 5 hinted, the lawsuit apparently was not really about one hospital or one incident. “In this case,” said the television news announcer, “Hastings got civil rights to trump religious beliefs.”
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=95b10b5f-9552-4022-a54f-29574567d00a
A Catholic hospital that refused to allow its facilities to be used for breast implant surgery on a man who had undergone a sex-change operation has backed down and will now allow the procedure.
In 2006, a doctor told Charlene Hastings, 57, that Seton Medical Center in Daly City would not allow him to perform breast-enhancement surgery on a transsexual. Hastings then called Seton to learn more, reported the Jan. 5 San Jose Mercury News. Hastings told the newspaper the inquiry elicited the following responses from a Seton surgical coordinator: “It’s not God’s will,” and “God made you a man.”
A 2006 memo sent by Seton Medical Center to physicians said that “transgender procedures or procedures that are part of the transgendering process may not be performed at Seton, as Seton is a Catholic Hospital.”
On Dec. 21, Hastings filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against the hospital, a part of the Daughters of Charity Health System. The suit alleges that Seton violated state law, which allows religiously-based hospitals to refuse to perform abortions but makes no religious exemption for a denial of elective surgery to transgenders.
On Feb. 27, the Bay Area television broadcast CBS 5 News announced that “transgender Charlene Hastings has claimed moral victory against Catholics.” In what CBS 5 News called “a veiled mea culpa,” the hospital issued a written statement to CBS 5, in which a spokesman said, “We regret any confusion that may have come from this situation. We want this patient and her physician to know that they are welcome at Seton Medical Center.”
Seton, however, says Catholic teaching still prohibits it to accommodate sex-reversal procedures.
“I’m glad that they’ve recognized that they’ve made a mistake,” said Hastings in an interview with CBS 5 News. But her attorney, Chris Dolan, was more belligerent. Referring to the hospital’s statement, he told CBS 5, “I don’t know where the confusion is, other than perhaps they were confused that that was illegal.” Despite the hospital’s reversal, Dolan said the lawsuit for monetary damages would go forward. “Like any good religious experience, first you need enlightenment and then you need atonement,” said Dolan. “And what we have here perhaps is a glimpse of enlightenment. Has it changed their heart? I don’t think so. Will it change their practice? It better.”
Hasting, however, will not get his surgery at Seton, saying he is not “comfortable” because he would feel the hospital would be “doing it under duress.”
As CBS 5 hinted, the lawsuit apparently was not really about one hospital or one incident. “In this case,” said the television news announcer, “Hastings got civil rights to trump religious beliefs.”
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=95b10b5f-9552-4022-a54f-29574567d00a
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Mieleeni tuli että jos saisit koostettua tästä englannin kielisestä tekstistä lyhyehkön suomenkielisen vastineet niin ehkä keskustelijoiden olisi helpompi siihen osallistua, tai mitä mahtaa muut täällä olla ehdotuksestani mieltä?
Suomeksi vaan, niin on vanhankin helpompi ymmärtää.