{"id":321157,"date":"2024-11-04T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=321157"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:06:04","slug":"california-catholic-hospital-sued-kill-babies-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-catholic-hospital-sued-kill-babies-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"California Catholic hospital sued by state agrees to intentionally kill babies in emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A hospital in pro-abortion California faced a state lawsuit<\/a> in February for its alleged failure to treat a pregnant woman who was facing an emergency. The lawsuit, filed September 30 by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alleges that Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka denied Anna Nusslock emergency care when her water broke prematurely while she was 15 weeks pregnant with twins, according to the LA Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The condition, known as Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PPROM), does not require that a woman have an induced abortion to intentionally kill the preborn baby or babies before delivering them, but could require that doctors help labor along if it is determined to be too far progressed to be stopped. In some cases, but not all, labor can be stopped.<\/p>\n

According to the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>, the standard treatment for PPROM at 15 weeks would include the administration of tocolytics<\/a> to try to stop labor, bed rest to prolong pregnancy, or the induction of labor to induce delivery and reduce the risk of infection in the mother and baby.<\/p>\n

Nusslock was reportedly hemorrhaging when she arrived at Providence St. Joseph Hospital, but rather than provide standard treatment, doctors allegedly gave her buckets and towels and told her to drive 12 miles away to Mad River Community Hospital. They incorrectly<\/em> advised her that as long as one of the twins had a detectable heartbeat the hospital would not allow them to offer her emergency care until her life was at risk. However, delivering living or deceased babies is not an induced abortion, is not considered morally wrong by the Catholic Church, and is not in violation of any pro-life laws<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The only acts prohibited by Catholic teaching to end a pregnancy are those that are carried out with the sole intention<\/em> of causing the child to die<\/em>. In Nusslock’s case, if labor could not be stopped, helping her deliver her babies would not<\/em> be an abortion even though they were too young to survive. Their deaths would be natural and not<\/em> caused<\/em> by the doctors.<\/p>\n

Pro-abortion advocates and the media, however, have been working overtime to convince Americans that preterm delivery and even emergency C-sections are induced abortions and are banned in certain states. They are not<\/a>. Nusslock needed her babies delivered and for her bleeding to be stopped, not for her babies to be dismembered before delivery.<\/p>\n