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While district of San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, has hailed the University of California Health System as embodying the state s progressive values, he has also lambasted its contracts with facilities that he said forbid gender-affirming and abortion health care.
These contracts often include partnerships with Catholic-affiliated institutions like Dignity Health, the largest hospital provider in California, which, according to its website, agree[s] not to perform certain services like elective abortions, elective sterilization or in-vitro fertilization.
Wiener has said these restrictions endanger lives and, now, he wants to pass legislation that would bar UC Health from contracting with hospitals that prevent UC physicians and medical students from providing reproductive and LGBTQ-inclusive care, including: contraception, tubal ligation, abortion, gender-affirming care and treatment for incomplete miscarriage and ecto
California bill could bar UC Health from affiliating with Catholic hospitals that limit abortions
Senate Bill 379 would ensure that, moving forward, UC Health would only affiliate with hospitals that will allow its staff to provide all necessary care. Photo by JC Gellidon/Unsplash/Creative Commons
May 7, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) While district of San Francisco state Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat, has hailed the University of California Health System as embodying the state’s progressive values, he has also lambasted its contracts with facilities that he said forbid gender-affirming and abortion health care.
These contracts often include partnerships with Catholic-affiliated institutions like Dignity Health, the largest hospital provider in California, which, according to its website, “agree(s) not to perform certain services like elective abortions, elective sterilization or in-vitro fertilization.”