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Religious directives at Catholic hospitals complicate emergency care for pregnant women

PBS News Hour - Segments

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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For decades, Catholic leaders in the U.S. have placed restrictions on certain reproductive health services at Catholic-run hospitals. But as abortion is becoming harder to access nationwide, there’s a new spotlight on care at these facilities. Special correspondent Sarah Varney traveled to Eureka, California, to meet one woman who ran into the limits of Catholic-run healthcare. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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For decades, Catholic leaders in the U.S. have placed restrictions on certain reproductive

0:05.3

health services at Catholic-run hospitals.

0:08.3

But as abortion is becoming harder to access nationwide, there's a new spotlight on care

0:13.6

at these facilities.

0:15.4

Special correspondent Sarah Varney traveled to Eureka, California to meet one woman who ran head first into the limits of Catholic-run health care.

0:23.6

Yeah, it was a very fun day. It was a nice wedding.

0:27.6

Five hours north of San Francisco, among ancient Redwoods and along rainy coastlines,

0:33.6

36-year-old Anna Neslock and her husband, Daniel Daniel live in the small city of Eureka, California,

0:38.9

with their loyal dog and two cats.

0:41.6

We went out into the woods and we took really sweet pictures, like with the red woods.

0:47.0

The Wisconsin native moved to this rural community a decade ago to begin her career as a chiropractor

0:52.6

and to start a family.

0:55.0

The first one I started before I was pregnant and then I was making the first one, I couldn't

1:00.0

stop imagining a second one. So I made the second one. And then I found out they were twins.

1:05.0

Not knowing you had, we're going to have twins, right.

1:07.0

But last February, 15 weeks into her pregnancy, Anna says something felt wrong.

1:12.6

I started having bleeding and cramping and I went to our hospital, Providence St. Joseph

1:18.6

Hospital, and it was a terrible experience.

1:22.6

Her amniotic sac, where the fetus grows, had ruptured far too early, putting Anna at high risk for infection and uncontrollable bleeding.

1:30.3

Doctors said she needed an abortion right away, but they couldn't help her because an ultrasound was still picking up her daughter's heartbeats.

1:38.3

I could either wait until somebody's heart stopped, either mine or theirs, or I could leave. At what point did it become obvious that this was going to be a very different experience

1:48.0

at this Catholic hospital?

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