After Roe was overturned, the federal health department issued guidance saying EMTALA offered federal protections for providers to perform abortions in emergency situations, even in states that restrict the procedure...
The Biden administration's Justice Department filed a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law that only allows for abortion to save a pregnant person's life, arguing the exception was 'extremely narrow' and ran afoul of EMTALA...
Idaho and allies argue that EMTALA, while not mentioning abortion, provides protections for a mother and an 'unborn child' equally...
The Justice Department argued those protections were added to the law in 1989 to make clear that hospitals had to provide emergency care for an unborn child even if the mother's health wasn't at risk...
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