The merger's conditions include what the California Attorney General's Office called “the largest commitment by a system to serving Medi-Cal beneficiaries and charity care in state history.”
“This Court follows the commands of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the United States Constitution, rather than the disingenuous calculations of the Mississippi Legislature,” U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves wrote.
Even as Catholic hospitals have moved away from serving the poor, they have adhered to other sections of the Catholic directives that curtail access to abortion, contraception, tubal ligations, vasectomies, gender transition-related care, and some fertility treatments.
Ohio’s bill is part of a trend among GOP state lawmakers trying to pass legislation to challenge Roe v. Wade, creating a case that would allow the Supreme Court to revisit legal protections for abortion care.
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