'We don't deliver babies here': Hospitals turn away pregnant patients
In 2021, Lesa Morrison's back began to ache. She was 36 weeks pregnant with her fourth child. She rushed to the local emergency department at St. Aloisius hospital in Harvey, North Dakota. The ER doctor said he was going to discharge Lesa from the ER and her husband would have to take her to another hospital 73 miles away.
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