
Health Care Denied: Patients and Physicians Speak Out About Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Women's Health and Lives
The "Health Care Denied: Patients and Physicians Speak Out About Catholic Hospitals and the Threat to Women's Health and Lives" report recounts stories told to the ACLU by women who were denied medically indicated reproductive health care at Catholic hospitals, where religion too often takes precedence over medical standards.
Some of the women included in the report describe rushing to a nearby Catholic hospital when something went horribly awry with their pregnancies, only to be turned away because of the hospital’s religious restrictions on care.
The map below shows the prevalence of hospitals and acute care beds in Catholic facilities in the U.S., 2016.


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