Screenshot courtesy of NBC News | Mercedes Wells in labor.
New bill would require hospitals to give women in labor a plan if they’re told to go home
A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana hospital. She was told to go home and gave birth in her truck minutes later.
Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., will announce the WELLS Act, or the Women Expansion for Learning and Labor Safety Act, on Tuesday, after Mercedes Wells gave birth to her fourth child in her car earlier this month, her office confirmed exclusively with NBC News.
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