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Pregnant in California? What Catholic hospital rules can mean in an emergency - Elsacat - Nov 22 2025
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/california-catholic-hospitals-religious-rules-deny-maternal-care/
https://archive.ph/GAvxl
Quote:In September 2024, around the time Harrison was denied care at Mercy San Juan, Bonta sued a different Catholic hospital (opens in new tab) — Providence St. Joseph in Humboldt County — alleging that it refused to treat pregnant patients facing life-threatening complications for religious reasons. The attorney general called Providence St. Joseph’s policies “draconian.”
One patient who was later added to the lawsuit was forced to wait while staff monitored her for sepsis, despite a nonviable pregnancy and signs of infection. Providence St. Joseph denied her care during a pregnancy in 2021 and again in 2022. Another patient, Anna Nusslock, was denied a medically necessary termination even as she faced what the AG later described as an “immediate threat to her life and health.”
“People in California assume this doesn’t happen here,” said K.M. Bell, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, which is representing Nusslock in a separate civil suit.
Bell said many refusals of care are never communicated to the patient. “Typically, somebody is left sitting in a hospital bed, bleeding and in pain, without care being provided — and they don’t even know why.”
Providence St. Joseph is the only labor-and-delivery hospital for miles. “In this community, there are no alternatives,” said Bell. “Patients were being told they needed to be helicoptered to San Francisco.”
RE: Pregnant in California? What Catholic hospital rules can mean in an emergency - Clover - Nov 22 2025
Quote:Bell said many refusals of care are never communicated to the patient. “Typically, somebody is left sitting in a hospital bed, bleeding and in pain, without care being provided — and they don’t even know why.”
It sickens and pisses me off to no end how hospitals are able to get away with being "owned/operated" by a woman-hating religion that then can deceptively dictate what medical care they provide based on said misogynistic fucking religion. How this cannot be considered medical malpractice is beyond me (hint: it's "just" misogyny so "no one cares"). Draconian in-fucking-deed. Hospitals should be completely secular. Fucking insane. Oh, oh, and if you complain about these misogynistic hospitals, you'll get some fucking Christian cocksucker clamoring about how if said religious hospital was shutdown then there wouldn't be any nearby medical care at all. 🥺🥺 Wow, so thanks for fucking nothing then? Literally threatening people's health on the basis that they need to tolerate their religious misogyny.
RE: Pregnant in California? What Catholic hospital rules can mean in an emergency - Elsacat - Nov 23 2025
How is it the Christian thing to do to let a mother get sick and/or die, especially if she's struggling with the loss of her child? Hospitals shouldn't be allowed to operate like that. Religious considerations shouldn't take precedence over saving the mother's life.
RE: Pregnant in California? What Catholic hospital rules can mean in an emergency - Clover - Nov 23 2025
(Yesterday, 9:53 AM)Elsacat How is it the Christian thing to do to let a mother get sick and/or die, especially if she's struggling with the loss of her child?
Well, Christians have done a bang-up job trying to convince the society that they're so noble and "pro-life" and they were able to do this in part due to the pervasive layer of misogyny that underlies our society and has existed for millenia. Mothers are women are creatures that ultimately don't matter. They exist to do labor for men and produce babies for men, for whatever men want. Also women deserve to be punished with childbirth because Bible says so. It's misogyny all the way down.
(Yesterday, 9:53 AM)Elsacat Hospitals shouldn't be allowed to operate like that. Religious considerations shouldn't take precedence over saving the mother's life.
💯 I don't think religious hospitals are a thing that should exist, but if they have to right now, they should have a giant fuckin' sign right out front of all their doors, right at every lobby desk, right in the patient rooms, that say something in big text like "THIS HOSPITAL IS CONTROLLED UNDER [X] RELIGION. As a result, this hospital refuses to do the following procedures due to [X] religion's beliefs: [list of all the shit they refuse to do, most of it involving letting women be sick and possibly die in the name of 'we're "pro-life"']" Along with a list of alternative hospitals sorted by distance from the religious hospital that do perform those procedures (and if there are none, that should be noted too, so people who still happen to believe women are human beings who deserve medical treatment that prioritizes the woman's wellbeing, can see how fucked up the situation is). I'm sick of their insidious sneaky nature. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this. Disgusting.