Hospital denies emergency care to pregnant woman

Read the fifth paragraph - the one about a hospital in the Northeast:

http://www.aclu.org/blog/religion-belief-reproductive-freedom/religious-doctrine-cant-trump-patients-lives-and-health

In this incident, the pregnant woman who was denied emergency treatment ended up in intensive care for 10 days - and developed pulmonary disease, forcing her to be dependent on oxygen for the rest of her life.

I know this article touches on some contentious issues, but this was such a clear case of a hospital putting its own interpretation of religious doctrine ahead of patients' health that I'm astonished that any hospital ethics committee allowed this to occur. The hospital put a woman's life at risk even though there was zero chance the fetus could survive - and the woman was injured permanently because of the hospital's mandate.

In fact, what the hospital did is illegal.

The rest of the article describes similar events - but this was one in which necessary treatment was actually denied.