Rebecca Shamar, a 33-year-old husband, is expecting their third crumb cruncher.

They decided that three were enough, so she asked their obstetrician to perform a tubal

ligation after she delivers the child. But the hospital where she planned to deliver the baby

is a Catholic hospital, a Mercy Medical Center in Reading, California. The hospital's religious

principles do not permit tubals, so the request was turned down. There are other hospitals that do

the procedure, albeit some distance away, so it shouldn't have become a major issue, but it

has. The ACLU and Rebecca Shamar also sued the Medical Center and the Health Care

Provider Dignity Health, which operates 30 facilities in California for sexual discrimination.

Now the case hasn't gained much nationwide attention, but it was a big deal locally.

Los Angeles Times recently published a scathing column backing the lawsuit,

demanding the religious values of the health care provider be brushed aside.

This week San Francisco judge Ernest Goldsmith upheld a previous ruling

that Mercy Medical Center was not engaging in discrimination by denying Ms. Shamar,

or the procedure. He noted the hospital's policy of not offering sterilizations,

also applies to men, and pointed out the couple could get the procedure done somewhere else.

Now don't think for one minute that this ruling's the end of the story, the left will not rest.

Liberals will exhaust every avenue to wage war on those who dared exercise.

Their religious values, particularly when it comes to the birth of a child.