That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upended national abortion rights in the U.S. It was an effort by the Biden administration to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications.
The Biden administration had argued that hospitals — including ones in states with near-total bans — needed to provide emergency abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That law requires emergency rooms that receive Medicare dollars to provide an exam and stabilizing treatment for all patients. Nearly all emergency rooms in the U.S. rely on Medicare funds.
“No pregnant woman or her family should have to even begin to worry that she could be denied the treatment she needs to stabilize her emergency medical condition in the emergency room,” the letter said.
TL;DR;
Trump admin guts the Biden-era EMTALA guidance which forced hospitals to provide life-saving abortions in medical emergencies.
CMS claims it’ll still enforce EMTALA only if the fetus is also at risk. Translation: Pregnant people’s health no longer matters.
SCOTUS’s non-rulings left ER docs guessing if they’ll face prison for doing their jobs.
This isn’t “states’ rights” it’s state-sanctioned femicide. The admin’s own CMS admits the goal is to “rectify confusion” (read: intimidate hospitals into compliance).
-Trump, apparently
Just all Republicans mostly the evangelicals but the rest still voted for this.
Where’s Mario’s brother when you need him
Maybe waiting for parade day
I hate to say it, but Player 2 was a blip. This isn’t fiction where Robin Hood inspires the masses. The masses have too much to lose and enjoy their bread and circuses too much.
Sure. MAGA doesn’t give a fuck f you or someone you love dies
Nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives.
