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My Health is NOT Up for Debate: Wheel

Do you think our nation's leaders would allow a hospital to refuse to perform an emergency abortion on a woman -- even if it means she would die? Unfortunately, if some leaders have their way, the answer would be yes. The House of Representatives actually passed a bill that would allow hospitals to turn away women needing emergency abortion care. This bill is just one example of the recent onslaught of attacks at both the federal and state level that that aim to deny women's access to reproductive health care.

Getting the emergency care a woman needs should not depend on the hospital to which she is taken. The "Wheel" video depicts how women may not get the life-saving reproductive care they need when they go to the hospital.