A Dolton mother says she is still processing the trauma of delivering her baby in a truck on the side of the road, just days after staff at a northwest Indiana hospital told her to leave.

“After being kicked out of the hospital and begging to stay but still being pushed away was hurtful, disgraceful,” Mercedes Wells told reporters Tuesday. “I felt unheard. I felt ignored. I felt treated less than human.”

She was joined by U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, who said she plans to file a bill to make sure what happened to Wells does not happen again to anyone else.

“It’s clear that Mercedes’ story isn’t an isolated incident,” Kelly said. “This is not a Franciscan health problem but rather a systemic issue.”

Mercedes Wells and her husband Leon Wells were traveling in northwest Indiana Nov. 16 when she

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