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Patients and Physicians Speak Out About Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Women's Health and Lives

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Report Recommendations:

  • A statement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) clarifying that all hospitals, regardless of religious affiliation, are required by federal law to provide emergency reproductive health care;
  • A systematic investigation by CMS into violations by Catholic hospitals of federal laws requiring emergency care, and a commitment to taking all necessary corrective action where violations are found;
  • Most importantly, a change in our public policies, to protect women in need of reproductive health services and the practitioners who are prohibited from providing this essential care.


Jennafer Norris


Tamesha Means


Mindy Swank


Angela Valavanis


Jessica Mann


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