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  • noun Plural form of ligation.

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Examples

  • Similarly, St. Charles hospital in Bend, Oregon, refused to accede to demands from Bishop Robert Vasa to stop performing tubal ligations for women seeking to limit their pregnancies.

    Barbara Coombs Lee: Sierra Vista Chooses Community Over Catholicism Barbara Coombs Lee 2011

  • University Hospital has made arrangements for women who want tubal ligations to get them at a different facility, he says.

    The Future of U.S. Health Care Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

  • Jessica Graham, 33, delivered her second child through a Caesarean in September at the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center in Arizona, but she had to schedule a second operation to have her tubes tied after the hospital decided to become part of a Catholic hospital group and ordered a stop to all tubal ligations.

    Religious hospitals' restrictions sparking conflicts, scrutiny Rob Stein 2011

  • Similarly, St. Charles hospital in Bend, Oregon, refused to accede to demands from Bishop Robert Vasa to stop performing tubal ligations for women seeking to limit their pregnancies.

    Barbara Coombs Lee: Sierra Vista Chooses Community Over Catholicism Barbara Coombs Lee 2011

  • Critics fear that health care could be curtailed at University Hospital — a core element of the city's public healthcare network, particularly for the poor — because of Catholic restrictions on such things as end-of-life decisions, emergency abortions and tubal ligations.

    Archbishop defends Catholic healthcare merger with hospital 2011

  • While acknowledging concerns about religious directives that prevent Catholic hospitals from providing some services, such as fertility treatments, abortions, tubal ligations and hormonal contraception, she concluded that Montgomery County was not an area "that lacks available and accessible options for obtaining these services."

    Coalition urges rejection of Holy Cross proposal for new Montgomery hospital Lena H. Sun 2011

  • While acknowledging concerns about religious directives that prevent Catholic hospitals from providing some services, such as fertility treatments, abortions, tubal ligations and hormonal contraception, she concluded that Montgomery County was not an area "that lacks available and accessible options for obtaining these services."

    Coalition urges rejection of Holy Cross proposal for new Montgomery hospital Lena H. Sun 2011

  • In addition to barring abortions, the directives prohibit tubal ligations, the surgical sterilization of women and the second leading form of contraception in the United States.

    Religious hospitals' restrictions sparking conflicts, scrutiny Rob Stein 2011

  • University Hospital made arrangements for women who want tubal ligations to get them at a different facility.

    Hospital Merger Rejected Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

  • Under the Directives, patients are denied tubal ligations and vasectomies as well as contraception.

    Edwin Yohnka: A Bad Deal for Health Care in Illinois Edwin Yohnka 2010

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