In a letter to CMS on Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, arguing that refusal to provide abortions at religiously affiliated hospitals is a growing problem, the Washington Post reports. Five ACLU attorneys in the letter cited the case of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., which had its Catholic status revoked Tuesday after physicians in 2009 performed an emergency abortion to save a pregnant woman's life (Stein, Washington Post, 12/22)...
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