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Community raises concerns on hospital merger of Schenectady’s Ellis Hospital and Albany’s St. Peter’s
SCHENECTADY Amy Sarah LaMena had an ectopic scare several years ago. As a Catholic she knew she would have to choose between saving her life and continuing to be there for her other two children and having an abortion or continuing the pregnancy and possibly dying at the Catholic hospital where she sought care.
“As a Catholic the idea of abortion hurt, but not as much as the fear of my two young sons losing their mother,” part of her comment stated. “While I mercifully did not have to face that choice that day, I have thought about it a lot since. Catholic hospitals are only allowed to end a pregnancy through an ‘indirect’ abortion, via a salpingectomy (removal of the Fallopian tube). Will women have to choose to s