Idaho hospital says it is ending labor and delivery services amid 'political climate'

An Idaho hospital said it will no longer be providing obstetrical care due in part to the state's "legal and political climate." In a news release, Bonner General Health in Sandpoint -- 400 miles north of Boise and serving about 9,000 people -- said it would end its labor & delivery services by mid-May. "We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services," Ford Elsaesser, BGH's board president, said in a statement. "We hoped to be the exception, but our challenges are impossible to overcome now." The release cited...