Not Here or There: How Catholic Hospital Abortion Bans Interact with State Bans

Catholic hospitals have long prohibited abortion within their facilities. However, in the years after Roe, they were able to say “not here” while quietly relying on secular hospitals to offer the services needed to keep their patients safe.

LRRP Director Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Debra Stulberg, and Lori Freedman’s latest paper in the Maryland Journal of Health Care Law and Policy details this new relationship between hospital and state-level abortion bans.