One year ago, the University of California Board of Regents voted to approve an uncompromising policy governing the terms of partnerships between UC's medical schools and Catholic hospital systems.
The policy led UC doctors to believe that they would be permitted to provide any care they judged warranted for their patients, including performing abortions and contraceptive implants that are otherwise forbidden at Catholic healthcare facilities.
They couldn't be required to transfer or refer those patients to non-religious hospitals if moving them or delaying treatment would be "detrimental to the patient's care," as is often the case.
