Let Women Die Act

My Health is NOT Up for Debate: Wheel

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Getting the emergency care a woman needs should not depend on the hospital to which she is taken. The "Wheel" video depicts how women may not get the life-saving reproductive care they need when they go to the hospital.

April 9, 2012 - 1:31pm

Getting the emergency care a woman needs should not depend on the hospital to which she is taken. The "Wheel" video depicts how women may not get the life-saving reproductive care they need when they go to the hospital.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

October 13, 2011 - 9:12pm (Print)

Today the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, as well as 15 Democrats, passed a bill that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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