Money-making L.A. hospitals quit delivering babies. Inside the fight to keep one labor ward open.

Los Angeles hospitals are closing maternity wards at a faster pace than the region's declining birth rates. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital is fighting the trend, but leaders say

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