• Responding to pressure from the Vatican, the bishops had voted to revise the Directives in June 2001, putting sterilization on par with abortion and euthanasia as an "intrinsically immoral" service and banning the procedure at all Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The 53-page report, "Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina," documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the reproductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape. (disabled-world.com)
  • Choosing when or if to have a child is a fundamental right, which includes both the right to procreate and the right to undergo abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)
  • These adults must rely on their legal guardians to consent to or refuse medical procedures, such as abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)
  • however, a path must also be available for adults under guardianship who seek abortion or sterilization. (nlg.org)
  • All the charges against Atena stemmed from her peaceful activities, including meeting with families of political prisoners and criticising the authorities on social media and through her art work - art which included a cartoon that satirised members of Iran's parliament for considering bills that restrict access to voluntary contraception and family planning services. (amnesty.org.uk)
  • Iran is currently creating a law that will roll back women's rights in the country by restricting access to contraception and criminalising voluntary sterilisation. (amnesty.org.uk)
  • The Bill to Increase Fertility Rates and Prevent Population Decline (Bill 446) outlaws voluntary sterilization, which is believed to be the second most common method of modern contraception in Iran, and blocks access to information about contraception, denying women the opportunity to make informed decisions about having children. (amnesty.org)
  • At least 110 Romani women in eastern Slovakia have been subjected to involuntary sterilization says a recent report by investigators from women's rights organizations in New York and Slovakia. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • That would culminate in a number of works, most prominently their joint-authored Sterilization for Human Betterment: A Summary of Results of 6,000 Operations in California, 1909-1929 in 1929. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 1930s, the General Assembly passed the Act for Human Betterment by Voluntary Sterilization. (wcax.com)
  • The "Required Health Plan Coverage Guidelines" set forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states: "Non-grandfathered plans and issuers are required to provide coverage without cost-sharing consistent with these guidelines in the first plan year.that begins on or after August 1, 2012.All [FDA] approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity. (theaquilareport.com)
  • Of women who decide not to have more children, 44% choose sterilization over reversible contraceptive methods. (medscape.com)
  • The report, 'Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom,' is based on 230 in-depth interviews conducted in 40 Roma settlements in eastern Slovakia, according to the report's authors, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights (formerly the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy) and the Centre for Civil and Human Rights in Kosice, a Slovak non-governmental organization. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Such a exception would also allow the millions of Catholic and non-Catholic women who choose sterilization each year to exercise their freedom of conscience at the hospital of their choice, in their community. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • But, a 1999 US study reported that of 11,000 women women who underwent permanent sterilization in the 1970s and 1980s, after 14 years, the cumulative risk of regret was 20% among those who were 30 or younger when they were sterilized, and 6%t for women over age 30 at sterilization. (thenotmom.com)
  • in the opinion of this House, the Government should give further consideration to the potentialities of voluntary sterilisation for hereditary defectives in accordance with the unanimous recommendations of the Departmental Committee that reported to the Minister of Health on 8th January, 1934. (parliament.uk)
  • Cardinal Health continues to cope with sterility issues affecting their popular surgical gowns, now issuing two voluntary field actions for pre-packaged surgical kits. (xtalks.com)
  • The FDA is warning that a Greatbatch Medical Orthopedic surgical tool could cause serious injury or death because it came with inadequate sterilization recommendations. (mddionline.com)
  • The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the voluntary recall of a product used by hospitals and surgical centers to monitor the effectiveness of certain sterilization systems. (mnhospitals.org)
  • Sterilization of surgical instruments was unsatisfactory at most health units. (who.int)
  • Laparoscopic tubal ligation is a surgical sterilization procedure in which a woman's fallopian tubes are either clamped and blocked or severed and sealed. (medscape.com)
  • The use of tubal ligation increases with parity: 59% of women who have had 3 children undergo sterilization versus 13% after 1 child. (medscape.com)
  • Farghadani was first arrested in August 2014 for a cartoon mocking members of Parliament as they debated a bill to ban voluntary sterilization procedures. (cbldf.org)
  • CWA President Carmen Pate said, Often these sterilizations are performed in filthy conditions without the woman's consent or knowledge, inviting infections and even death. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • There is inherent risk with any surgery in which the peritoneal cavity is entered, including the rare risks of bowel injury, hemorrhage, transfusion, and, with some sterilization methods, thermal injury. (medscape.com)
  • All sterilization methods have risks of failure and regret. (medscape.com)
  • In the US Collaborative Review of Sterilization study, bipolar cauterization had a 10-year cumulative life-table probability of failure of 24.8 per 1,000 procedures, Falope ring was 17.7 per 1,000 procedures, and the spring clip was 36.5 per 1,000 procedures. (medscape.com)
  • One finds that most of the opposition to the idea of sterilisation comes from people who have not read that report. (parliament.uk)
  • When it comes to voluntary sterilization, people generally predict that regret will lead women to wish they'd never taken such a permanent action. (thenotmom.com)
  • The law led to the sterilization of over 250 people at the Brandon School and at the Waterbury State Hospital. (wcax.com)
  • Voluntary Sterilization: When Women Ask For It, Why Won't Doctors Listen? (thenotmom.com)
  • Headlines in August 2017 about a Canadian study of women under 30 seeking sterilization connected with many By Choice NotMoms around the world. (thenotmom.com)
  • Women have been harassed, coerced, bargained with, and lied to, just so doctors and health workers can meet their mandatory sterilization quotas to appease the family planners. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Romani women in eastern Slovakia have been subject to at least 110 forced and coerced sterilizations in government health care facilities since the fall of communism in 1989, according to a recent report by human rights investigators in New York and Slovakia. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Fifteen organizations, including women's health, rights, and research groups, cited a review of 150 hospital mergers in the past decade that has identified at least 40 non-Catholic hospitals that had merged with Catholic hospitals and now face having to comply with the Directives and stop providing female sterilization to thousands of women, many of them poor. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • As organizations dedicated to the health and well-being of women, we respectfully ask the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to reconsider its June 2001 decision to revise the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (" Directives ") as they relate to the provision of sterilization for women. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • We can also confirm that several of these hospitals, like Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, CA, are the only hospitals providing sterilization services for women in the area. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The US Collaborative Review of Sterilization published data on 10,685 women monitored for 8-14 years. (medscape.com)
  • Was the sterilization campaign part of a shared "common sense" among policymakers, physicians, nurses, and general population regarding the need to sterilized low-income and indigenous women? (bvsalud.org)
  • Washington, DC -A coalition of leading women's health care advocates called today for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to revise their Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (Directives) and end their ban on voluntary female sterilization at Catholic and Catholic-affiliated hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The coalition offered to work with the USCCB to design a solution to preserve voluntary sterilization in all mergers between Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The revised Directives strictly limit the ability of non-Catholic hospitals that have merged with Catholic hospitals to provide voluntary female sterilization. (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • The paper will analyze the discourses regarding sterilization and reproduction of political and Catholic religious leaders, national and international media and conservative and "progressive" individuals in two different political scenarios: the Fujimori government and the current Toledo democratic regimen. (bvsalud.org)
  • Approximately half of female sterilizations are interval sterilizations, and the other half are performed at the time of cesarean delivery or immediately postpartum. (medscape.com)
  • In response to the report, the government office in charge of human rights and minority affairs promised an investigation into the 'unknown perpetrator,' meaning the doctors who performed the sterilizations and announced criminal charges against authors of the report. (jesus-is-savior.com)
  • Along with his advocacy of sterilization programs, Popenoe was also interested in using the principles of German and Austrian marriage consultation services for eugenic purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • A review by Catholics for a Free Choice of the approximately 150 hospital mergers in the past decade has identified 40 such situations in which sterilization services were preserved but are now jeopardized by the revised Directives . (catholicsforchoice.org)
  • An internal review at the company caught that the steam sterilization recommendation in the tools' instructions for use did not meet requirements for sterility assurance. (mddionline.com)
  • An FDA review showed that the Sterrad Cyclesure 24 Biological Indicators, made by Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), cannot effectively monitor the sterilization process throughout their indicated 15-month shelf life. (mnhospitals.org)
  • With Popenoe as his scientific workhorse, Gosney intended to study the sterilization work done in California and to use it to advocate sterilization in other parts of the country and in the world at large. (wikipedia.org)
  • The work would become a popular text for the advocacy of sterilization, as it purported to be an objective study of the operations in the state and concluded, unsurprisingly, that rigorous programs for the sterilization of the "unfit" were beneficial to all involved, including the sterilized patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study showed 143 sterilization failures with a resulting pregnancy. (medscape.com)
  • So you need parental consent to contract a state-sanctioned marriage under the age of 18 in the U.S., but you, all by yourself, can give full consent to the irreversibility of sterilization at 15? (theaquilareport.com)
  • In the state of Oregon, the Obamacare mandate, which went into effect on August 1, 2012, provides free sterilizations to girls as young as fifteen. (theaquilareport.com)
  • The authors state that with proper cleaning and sterilization, these fine electrodes can be used at least twice. (cdc.gov)
  • Greatbatch has developed new sterilization recommendations that meet acceptable sterility assurance levels (AAMI ST79 standard) and provided them to affected customers. (mddionline.com)
  • This book embodies the considered opinions of twenty-five years' practical experience of adult life-as an official reporter and journalist, as a voluntary war-worker, and as a married woman. (gutenberg.org)
  • Greatbatch initiated a voluntary field corrective action in late January for all Standard Offset Cup Impactors. (mddionline.com)
  • The probability of failure was directly affected by age: The younger the age at the time of sterilization, the higher the failure rate. (medscape.com)
  • I believe that in this matter in which no party issues are involved, for the problem of sterilisation cuts across all parties. (parliament.uk)