The decision by Ascension comes less than a year after Tennessee Republicans passed House Bill 1044 into law last April. The law, otherwise known as the Medical Ethics Defense Act, grants doctors and ...

Unchecked medical fascism is looking more and more like a bucket list in Tennessee. On Friday, a Catholic hospital in Nashville canceled a woman’s scheduled sterilization surgery because the ...

The woman said she had been seeking a salpingectomy — a surgery that removes the fallopian tubes — after years of trying ...

A bill currently moving through parliament would amend the criminal code to include forced or coerced sterilization ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2022. Q: I have had cats and dogs for years, and all of them have been ...