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A political analyst says Hillary Clinton should have known better than to repeat a bogus story alleging an Ohio hospital denied an uninsured pregnant woman medical care. During her campaigning, Senator Clinton (D-New York) has made extensive use of a story involving a woman from rural Ohio who was being paid minimum wage working at a local pizza shop. The Democratic presidential hopeful has been telling audiences: "It is so wrong, in this good, great, and rich country, that a young woman and her baby would die because she didn't have health insurance or a hundred dollars to get examined."...

WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stopped telling a story of a pregnant woman's medical tragedy after an Ohio hospital challenged its accuracy last weekend. But recent accounts of the episode have omitted key details that suggest there was more truth in the essence of Clinton's tale than her critics, and even her presidential campaign, have acknowledged. Since early March, the New York senator has often told campaign audiences a heartbreaking story of a young Ohio woman who began having problems with her pregnancy. She said the woman was twice turned away by a local hospital because she...