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Speaker 1: Rebecca Chamorrow, thirty three, and her husband are expecting their

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Speaker 1: third crumb cruncher. They decided that three were enough, so

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Speaker 1: she asked their obstetrician to perform a tubal ligation after

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Speaker 1: she delivers the child. But the hospital where she planned

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Speaker 1: to deliver the baby, as a Kapa hospital, a Mercy

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Speaker 1: Medical Center in Reading, California. The hospital's religious principles do

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Speaker 1: not permit tubals, so the request was turned down. There

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Speaker 1: are other hospitals that do the procedure, albeit some distance away,

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Speaker 1: so it shouldn't have become a major issue, but it has.

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Speaker 1: The A. C. L U and Rebecca Shamarro sued the

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Speaker 1: medical center and the healthcare provider Dignity Health, which operates

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Speaker 1: thirty facilities in California, for sexual discrimination. Now the case

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Speaker 1: hasn't gained much nationwide attention, but it was a big

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Speaker 1: deal locally. Los Angeles Times recently published a scathing column

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Speaker 1: backing the lawsuit, demanding the religious values of the healthcare

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Speaker 1: provider be brushed aside. This week, San Francisco judge Ernest

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Speaker 1: Goldsmith upheld the previous ruling that Mercy Medical Center was

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Speaker 1: not engaging in discrimination by denying Miss shamorrow the procedure.

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Speaker 1: He noted the hospital's policy of not offering sterilizations also

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Speaker 1: applies to men, and pointed out the couple could get

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Speaker 1: the procedure done somewhere else. Now, don't think for one

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Speaker 1: minute that this ruling is the end of the story.

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Speaker 1: The left will not rest. Liberals will exhaust every avenue

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Speaker 1: of wage war on those who dare to exercise their

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Speaker 1: religious values, particularly when it comes to the birth of

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Speaker 1: a child. M