On Wednesday the Supreme Court Under will decide under what circumstances can women with serious pregnancy complications obtain abortions in states where the procedure is banned?
The case centers on a Biden administration lawsuit, filed by the Justice Department in 2022, that argues Idaho’s ban failed to provide adequate legal cover to doctors who provide abortions in medical emergencies. With the Supreme Court now giving states the power to restrict abortion, the administration has few legal options as it seeks to promote abortion rights.
More than a dozen states have imposed near total bans on abortion since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in its 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act was passed by Congress in 1986, an effort to prevent hospitals from dumping or denying patients for economic reasons.
There have been rare cases where the federal government has found that hospitals have violated the law by not providing abortions in medical emergencies.
Antiabortion advocates hope the Supreme Court will hold that the act contains legal protections for fetal life.
What would happen if hospitals just got upset about the federal government pushing them around and fought back, by refusing to care for medicare and medicaid patients?
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Federal government establishes federal law. We are all bound by it. Don't like it? Get the votes to change it.
they would be sued in Federal Court, and the money taken anyway.
Not to mention that Hospitals get Federal funding for those patients and services
Great, so now the Supreme Court is making decisions about what sort of medical care women in distress can receive? That's ridiculous, but wholly in keeping with the draconian decision to yank women's constitutionally protected rights. Women should receive whatever medical care they need in the opinion of the medically trained - not legally trained - professionals.
SCOTUS’ decision to overturn Roe places more Women’s lives in danger, stresses an already stressed system while adding additional cost, and interfering in the practice of medicine. Leave it to the Republican Party, keep ‘em barefoot and pregnant. You made this mess, I’m sure the women voters of America will remember this on Election Day.
Congressional Democrats failed to protect a women's decision on abortion. Rather than codifying the Roe ruling into law - they made the decision to protect themselves and keep it as an issue to generate campaign funds. Twice...most recently under Obama...they had a supermajority in Congress with the votes to codify the ruling.
Congressional Democrats failed American women.
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The Supreme Court should have nothing to do with it. Abortion is not a constitutional issue; it is a legislative issue that should be left to the states.
@JollyQuokkaGreen1wk1W
This country has lost its mind. The idea that a bunch of legislators in each state are better able to handle these issues is insane. We are very much in a modern age with modern medicine and science. The idea that a woman should die or even be at any unwanted risk because she is pregnant makes no sense.
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