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May 3, 2016

Abortion Provider Files Complaint over Hospital's "Gag Order"
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An abortion provider has filed a federal civil rights complaint, saying
the Washington, D.C., hospital where she works forbade her from speaking
out in support of abortion rights. Dr. Diane Horvath-Cosper accused
officials with the Med Star Washington Hospital Center of imposing a
"gag order" against her pro-choice advocacy. Following an attack by an
anti-choice extremist on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, the
hospital's medical director told Dr. Horvath-Cosper he "[did] not want
to put a Kmart blue-light special on the fact that we provide abortions
at Med Star."


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