Ambiguities in Washington State hospital policies, irrespective of Catholic affiliation, regarding abortion and contraception service provision.
Hilary M SchwandtBethany SparkleMoriah Post-KinneyPublished in: Reproductive health (2018)
The impact of Catholic, and non-Catholic, affiliated hospital care on patients who need abortion and contraceptive services is concerning. Given the difficulties in meeting the goals of increased transparency for the public through hospital policy language, the government should instead mandate hospitals use a standardized checklist. Additionally, patients are in dire need of positive rights to information about and services to avoid the potential gap in care that the negative rights afforded to providers and facilities to opt-out of providing abortion and contraceptive services have created.
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