Segregating medicine along religious lines

More religion-based OB/GYN practices are popping up:

The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations, and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer “natural family planning” — teaching couples to monitor a woman’s temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.

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