PUBLIC HOSPITALS THAT DELIVER BABIES MUST PROVIDE ABORTIONS, EVEN IF OWNED BY CATHOLICS

“Public hospital districts may not administer or fund programs to provide ‘maternity care benefits, services, or information to women’ without also making provision for” contraception and for women “to voluntarily terminate their pregnancies.”

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle called the bill “utterly indefensible” and “a grave infringement on the rights of conscience.”