Court Opinion

ID: 9461609
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:19:19.984962+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:10.038224
License: Public Domain

CLARK, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
Despite Judge Gewin’s forceful opinion, I remain convinced that Orange County and this hospital enjoy precisely the sort of symbiotic relationship defined in Burton. To their mutual advantage, the county furnished land, buildings and facilities while operation and supervision by the hospital board and medical staff provided the general county community with health services and provided priority medical care for the county’s indigent citizens.
However, I still come down on the side of affirming the dismissal because the particular claim asserted is not actionable. Doe and Roe teach that a state *883cannot forbid certain types of abortions, but they do not create any duty on Orange County’s part to furnish facilities for such operations. Just as the Eagle Coffee Shop in Wilmington’s parking garage could not have been forced to furnish kosher food or serve fish on Friday, so the Orange County Hospital cannot be compelled to allow its facilities to be used for elective abortions. Contra, Doe v. Hale Hospital, 500 F.2d 144 (1st Cir. 1974), and Nyberg v. City of Virginia, supra.