Why Hospitals in Many States With Legal Abortion May Refuse To Perform Them ...Middle East

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Many states that tout themselves as protectors of reproductive health care, including California, Michigan and Pennsylvania, have little-noticed laws on the books protecting hospitals that refuse to provide it. The laws shield at least some hospitals from liability for not providing care they object to on religious grounds, leaving little recourse for patients. The providers — many of them Catholic hospitals — generally refuse to perform abortions and sterilizations because the services run contrary to their religious beliefs, but their objections can extend to other kinds of care. In our recent reporting on Catholic hospitals, we found that 35 states grant such legal protec

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