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 ...

This week, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights against Ascension Health, 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 ...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has filed a complaint with the state over a Catholic health system's refusal to allow a tube-tying procedure for a Flushing ...

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 ...

Short of abstinence, no birth control method is ever 100% guaranteed to prevent pregnancy. Even when it comes to "getting your tubes tied" in a procedure called tubal ligation. Tubal ligation is not ...

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 ...

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 ...