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In Chicago, an ambulance driver refused to transport a patient for an abortion. In California, fertility specialists rebuffed a gay woman seeking artificial insemination. In Texas, a pharmacist turned away a rape victim seeking the morning-after pill.

Congress and more than a dozen states are considering laws to compel workers to provide care -- or, conversely, to shield them from punishment.