The case underscores the widespread challenges of abortion care access in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

California has sued a Humboldt County hospital after a patient said she was denied an emergency abortion earlier this year even as she feared for her life because of miscarriage risks.

Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka in Humboldt County illegally declined to perform the procedure, the lawsuit alleges.

It is damning that here in California, where abortion care is a constitutional right, we have a hospital implementing a policy that’s reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

A California hospital has been sued by the attorney general on accusations that it denied a woman an emergency abortion.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued a Eureka, Calif., hospital Monday over the health-care provider’s refusal to provide a pregnant patient with emergency abortion care under an alleged policy that prohibited the treatment so long as a fetal heartbeat could be detected.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Humboldt County Superior Court,

California has initiated legal action against a rural Catholic hospital accused of denying an emergency abortion in February.

Many Californians are proud of their state’s strong protections for abortion and reproductive rights—safeguards that have become even more important in the post–Roe v. Wade era. But a new lawsuit filed Monday by Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office highlights the risks that blue states face from a vital sector of the healthcare system,

California's attorney general on Monday sued a Catholic hospital accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke prematurely, putting her at risk of potentially life-threatening infection and hemorrhage.