This week, California filed an important suit against a hospital for refusing emergency abortion care. But that hospital is part of a large Catholic chain and is likely to raise religion in defense. This defense would have been laughable even a decade ago. But healthcare refusal has been legitimized

Just this year, the Sup Ct (and the Biden Admin) took the view that the federal law requiring emergency care allowed doctors and hospitals to let pregnant people die. This is radical--and wrong. California's suit raises only state law, so isn't directly affected. But...

First do no harm - unless she's a woman.

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