Faithful Catholic wrote "Catholic hospitals will not script birth control--but women do not have to go to Catholic hospitals to get scripts for birth control now do they?" For some areas, particularly in Washington State, Oregon, the Dakotas, Iowa, and Alaska, over 40% of hospitals in the state (which also cover outpatient clinics) are operated under Catholic auspices, meaning that anyone who seeks reproductive health services may have to travel hours to find a non-Catholic hospital. Remember that Catholic hospitals are not allowed to intervene when a mother is dying as a result of serious complications of a pregnancy and there is no hope that the fetus will survive, either. For those women, Catholic control of hospital services that cover huge swaths of a region could be a death sentence.