California's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital, Providence St. Joseph Hospital, for allegedly refusing to provide emergency abortion care to a woman whose pregnancy was no longer viable. The lawsuit was announced by Attorney General Rob Bonta and filed in Humboldt County Superior Court.
The case revolves around Anna Nusslock, who, at 15 weeks into her pregnancy, experienced her water breaking and was taken to Providence in Eureka. Despite the nonviability of her pregnancy, the hospital reportedly declined to perform an abortion as long as one of the twins had detectable heart tones, unless Nusslock's life was deemed to be at sufficient risk.
