Gender-confused woman sues US Catholic hospital for refusing to remove her healthy uterus

Jul 22, 2020 by Jill

by Paul Smeaton, LifeSite:

The lawsuit invokes Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court’s recent decision writing transgenderism into 1964 civil rights law.

A woman suing a Maryland Catholic hospital for refusing to remove her healthy uterus as part of her attempt to “change gender” is appealing to the recent Bostock v. Clayton County Supreme Court ruling that anti-discrimination law should be reinterpreted to cover homosexuality and gender confusion.

Thirty-three-year-old Jesse Hammons had been scheduled to have surgery to remove her uterus at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center on January 6, after having completed blood tests, ultrasounds, and other health screenings in preparation for the operation.

But the surgery was eventually cancelled by the hospital, which says that it is guided by “Catholic health care values” and that it “observes the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.”

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