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Sterilization and abortion practices in Texas Catholic hospitals

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June 16, 2008
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Contents

The following files were prepared by a group independent of the researchers who completed a review of the Texas hospital study:

The researchers are responsible for the following files:

Pdf files from each TCH.xls worksheet

Analysis
Catholic hospitals betray mission
Summary

A new study of Texas’ Inpatient Hospital Discharge Public Use Data Files for 2000 through 2003 shows that the six US Catholic hospital systems operating in Texas reported providing contraceptive devices and medications as well as sterilizations of men and women in violation of human dignity and the Gospel (study may be downloaded from Catholic hospitals betray mission). Over 9,600 women were explicitly diagnosed for direct sterilization. 900 additional operations to interrupt fallopian tubes and 57 events related to legally induced abortion or “termination of pregnancy” were reported in circumstances that may also have violated Catholic hospital directives. The study does not include data on the hospitals’ provision of these procedures on an outpatient basis.

The methodology for the study is described in Catholic-Hospitals.pdf and in the story on the main page of wikileaks.org titled Catholic_Hospitals_Betray_Mission. The reader is encouraged to view one of these first before downloading the other files.
Context
United States
Cults and religious organizations
Catholic Church
Primary language
English
File size in bytes
16791591
File type information
Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
Cryptographic identity
SHA256 e2b6d1aa45c63797b02c613f511ed0243573994eeb8a308a6ead8e439f29dd34



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