California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a Humboldt County hospital over its alleged decision to deny emergency abortion care.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Providence Health & Services, alleging that Eureka’s St. Joseph Hospital denied emergency abortion care to a woman who arrived in pain and severely bleeding after her water broke just 15 weeks into pregnancy.

Providence St. Joseph Hospital refused to help the woman — despite finding her unborn children would not survive, and she likely would not either.

California's attorney general on Monday sued a Catholic hospital accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke prematurely, putting her at risk of potentially life-threatening infection and hemorrhage.

The patient, who spoke at a Monday news conference, says she was sent away with a bucket of towels to help with her bleeding.

California has sued a Humboldt County hospital after a patient said she was denied an emergency abortion earlier this year even as she feared for her life because of miscarriage risks.

The state said that despite a doctor’s recommendation and state law, a Catholic hospital declined to provide an abortion because fetal heart tones were present.

It is damning that here in California, where abortion care is a constitutional right, we have a hospital implementing a policy that’s reminiscent of heartbeat laws in extremist red states,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

California’s attorney general today sued a Catholic hospital accused of refusing to provide an emergency abortion in February to a woman whose water broke prematurely, putting her at risk of potentially life-threatening infection and hemorrhage.