There's a growing trend of buyout of secular hospitals by faith-based non-profit organizations. In Colorado, a pending buyout of Exempla health care facilities in Boulder and Jefferson counties, where Lutheran and Good Samaritan medical centers would be purchased by the Catholic-based Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, KS. It's estimated that half-a-million Coloradans could lose access to comprehensive reproductive health services as a result of this transaction. Because of Sisters of Charity's Catholic affiliation, there's concern about the loss of a wide range of reproductive health care services because of Catholic medical directives that ban provision of those services, including: abortion surgical sterilization, including tubal ligation at the time of caesarian-section delivery birth control counseling provision of birth control prescriptions provision of emergency contraception, which can prevent pregnancy if taken within 120 hours of unprotected sex termination of ectopic pregnancies
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