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Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Texas lawmakers have introduced competing bills that would either scrap or defend the controversial futile care law that has come under national condemnation. The law allows medical facilities to give families just 10 days to find places to care for their loved ones when a medical center refuses treatment.
The statute allows hospitals and other medical facilities that believe a patient is too far gone to help to give their families just 10 days to find another facility that will offer the treatment or lifesaving medical care. . .
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Unable to pay its rent, an Oakland abortion clinic in business for 36 years has announced it is closing. The Women’s Choice Clinic at 570 14th Street, which claims to be the oldest abortion clinic in the U.S., made the announcement Tuesday afternoon.
The clinic and its leadership have long been associated with the radical Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR), which in January organized counter-demonstrations to the West Coast Walk for Life and has characterized pro-lifers as “anti-abortion bigots.”
Linci Comy, executive director of the clinic for 21 years and on its staff since 1977, is a longtime member of BACORR. She told the Oakland Tribune on Tuesday, "We haven't been able to make our rent payments. We've been waiting for the checks from Medi-Cal and they're not forthcoming. To balance the state budget, California has frozen payments for services already provided, and for us, that is a fatal decision. With that and issues of the economy, it all came down on us in March. Our landlord let us know we have to be out in a couple of weeks. We're looking at bankruptcy.”
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