Viewer discretion is advised - graphic and upsetting information shared in videos. Catholic hospitals exercise a "religious directive" to deny basic care to women in need of life-saving reproductive procedures, resulting in unnecessary physical and emotional pain, injury, and death. Due to mergers and acquisitions over the past 15 years, 14.5 percent of all acute care hospitals in the United States are now either owned by or affiliated with the Catholic church. Many are the only hospitals available for hundreds of miles in rural areas of the country.