“Many hospitals, for political reasons, don’t provide abortion training, because the legislature says, ‘We’ll defund you if you do,’ ” Joffe says. The story of how the vast majority of American abortions ended up in clinics is an interesting slice of history. read more
About 4 percent of the nation’s pregnancy terminations take place in hospitals, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights think tank, and hospitals comprise more than a third of the nation’s abortion providers. read more
Ideally, hospitals should refuse to have anything at all to do with abortion or its practitioners because — at the risk of stating the mind-numbingly obvious — killing babies is wrong. read more