California sues Catholic hospital for refusing to abort 15-week-old twins
by Anthony Murdoch, LifeSite:
Attorney General Rob Bonta said that Providence St. Joseph’s abortion policy is ‘reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states,’ and he is seeking an injunction that would force the hospital to violate its own ethics rules to perform abortions in ’emergencies.’
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a Catholic hospital after it refused to violate its ethical code to allow its doctors to abort 15-week-old twins whose mother was suffering from an early miscarriage.
In a lawsuit filed in Humboldt County Superior Court, Bonta claims Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California, violated multiple state laws because it did not perform two abortions for Anna Nusslock, who was having an “obstetric” emergency.
Nusslock, who has a history of miscarriages according to local news reports, began to bleed at 14 weeks’ gestation and then shortly after that her water broke. She went to Providence St. Joseph, where she was told her twins would not survive. After talking with other doctors from another hospital, she was told she needed to have an abortion, according to the lawsuit.
Providence St. Joseph policy does not allow doctors to perform an abortion once a heartbeat is detected. According to Nusslock, she then drove to another nearby hospital to have the abortions.
California has conscience laws for doctors who have objections to performing abortions when it violates their faith but not for emergencies, the lawsuit claims.
Bonta learned about Providence St. Joseph’s policy on abortions, which is not uncommon for Catholic or Christian-affiliated hospitals, from Nusslock, who is being represented by the pro-abortion National Women’s Law Center.
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