A Doctor Says a Hospital Is Silencing Her Over Abortions
But one week after that, Horvath-Cosper says, she was called to a meeting with top officials at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia. They said it was a security matter.
“I was told that that the hospital was happy with the care we were providing for patients, but that they didn’t want to put a Kmart blue-light special on the fact that we provided abortion,” she says.
In the following weeks, the complaint says, MedStar denied a string of requests for Horvath-Cosper to speak with media and at another public event about abortion.
Horvath-Cosper’s federal civil rights complaint says that the hospital’s actions violate the decades-old “Church amendment.” That bans federally funded health care providers from discriminating based on a doctor’s moral conviction about abortion.
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