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Old July 23rd, 2008, 01:32 PM
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The hospital can place a lot of pressure on you to change your birth plan, and might even threaten to withdraw care but at the end of the day, unless they have staffing or resource issues and refer you to a larger hospital, they cannot refuse to care for you under any circumstances - that would be a major ethical breach.
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