After lawsuit, Catholic hospital in California will provide emergency abortion care

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Anna Nusslock needed a life-saving abortion but didn't get the help she needed. Other women will now be spared that trauma.

Earlier this month, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta sued a Catholic hospital, saying they denied a woman emergency medical care because, in their view, it violated their religious beliefs. Bonta said that didn’t matter because a state law requires all hospitals to help patients in those situations. The two sides have now reached a temporary agreement, with the Catholic hospital promising to provide emergency care—even if it involves terminating a pregnancy.

According to the lawsuit, back in February, a woman named Anna Nusslock was rushed to Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka because her water broke only 15 weeks into pregnancy. She was in pain and bleeding prior to that moment and tests at the hospital confirmed that the twins she was carrying would not survive. That alone was a tragic situation. But the hospital made everything worse.

At that point, the focus needed to be on helping Nusslock survive because “she was at increased risk of serious complications with every minute that passed.” That meant removing the fetuses from her body—both to avoid immediate health problems (the possibility of infection was serious) and to protect her ability to have kids later on.

The normal procedure would have been a medical abortion. But, since this was a Catholic institution, “Instead of providing the emergency medical care she needed, Providence Hospital offered her a bucket and towels.”

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/after-lawsuit-catholic-hospital-in

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1. For GROUP that touts how much they love moms and babes, they sure treat them like dirt.