In Maryland Hospital Debate, Women’s Health Ignored

Amie Newman writes on RH reality Check: “It seems another fight is brewing over Catholic hospitals and reproductive health care – this time in Maryland. Adventist Healthcare, based in Rockville, MD, is challenging the recommendation of Maryland Health Ca…

Pregnant Woman Kicked Out of Bar

ABCNews.com reporter Mary Plummer interviews NOW President Terry O’Neill about the pregnant woman who was kicked out of a Chicago bar for simply being pregnant: “Eight months pregnant with her first child, she’d flown into town that day from Denver to a…

Robin “Rocket Woman” Rothrock, R.I.P.

Carol Joffe writes on RH Reality Check: “After a valiant several-year struggle with breast cancer, Robin Rothrock, who ran an abortion clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana for many years, died peacefully at her home recently.”

Abortion fight at Catholic hospital pushes ACLU to seek federal help

Rob Stein reports in The Washington Post: “The American Civil Liberties Union [on Dec. 22] asked federal health officials to ensure that Catholic hospitals provide emergency reproductive care to pregnant women, saying the refusal by religiously affiliated hospitals to provide abortion and other services was becoming an increasing problem.”