California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Humboldt County Superior Court,

Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka in Humboldt County illegally declined to perform the procedure, the lawsuit alleges.

California has sued a Humboldt County hospital after a patient said she was denied an emergency abortion earlier this year even as she feared for her life because of miscarriage risks.

It is damning that here in California, where abortion care is a constitutional right, we have a hospital implementing a policy that’s reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a California hospital, alleging it denied emergency abortion care to a Eureka woman who was miscarrying and bleeding profusely, forcing her to travel to another hospital in excruciating pain and worrying she would bleed out.

California's attorney general on Monday sued a Catholic hospital accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke prematurely, putting her at risk of potentially life-threatening infection and hemorrhage.

The patient, who spoke at a Monday news conference, says she was sent away with a bucket of towels to help with her bleeding.