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California sues hospital over emergency abortion care

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October 1, 2024
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California sues hospital over emergency abortion care

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) this week announced a lawsuit against Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, alleging the hospital refused to provide an abortion to a woman despite her pregnancy presenting an immediate threat to her life and no longer being viable.

Bonta’s complaint cited the case of Anna Nusslock, who was 15 weeks pregnant with twins when her water broke after experiencing a week of pain and bleeding. After going to the emergency department at Providence Saint Joseph in Eureka, Calif., Nusslock was diagnosed with previable preterm premature rupture of membranes and informed her twins would not make it.

The California attorney general’s suit states that Nusslock needed a dilation and evacuation (D&E) in order to prevent complications resulting from her diagnosis and pregnancy that was no longer viable.

“Instead of providing the emergency medical care she needed, Providence Hospital offered her a bucket and towels,” the complaint reads.

The doctors at Providence allegedly told Nusslock that hospital policy prevented them from providing a D&E as long as her twins had detectable heart tones. One of the doctors is alleged to have told Nusslock she would hemorrhage and die if she attempted to drive to another hospital, in this case the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

She was ultimately instructed to drive to another hospital roughly 20 minutes away, being given a bucket by hospital staff before she left. Nusslock was “actively hemorrhaging” by the time she arrived at the next facility.

Bonta is accusing Providence of violating California’s Emergency Services Act as well as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits businesses from discriminating against people on the basis on age, race, sex, disability, national origin and other factors.

“California is the beacon of hope for so many Americans across this country trying to access abortion services since the Dobbs decision. It is damning that here in California, where abortion care is a constitutional right, we have a hospital implementing a policy that’s reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states,” Bonta said in a statement.

“With today’s lawsuit, I want to make this clear for all Californians: abortion care is healthcare. You have the right to access timely and safe abortion services,” he added. “At the California Department of Justice, we will use the full force of this office to hold accountable those who, like Providence, are breaking the law.”

With 51 hospitals across seven states including Alaska, California, Montana, Texas and Washington state, Providence is among the largest hospital systems in the U.S. Having been founded by Catholic nuns in the 1850s, the organization bills itself as a “faith-based” health care provider.

The Hill has reached out to Providence for comment.

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