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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSupreme Court justices appear split over whether to protect abortion care during emergencies
U.S. Supreme Court justices spent two hours Wednesday morning debating whether a federal law about emergency treatment encompasses abortion care even in states with strict abortion bans, with no clear indication of how they may ultimately rule.
A decision could come as soon as the end of June whether Idahos near-total abortion ban means doctors who might need to terminate a pregnancy during a health emergency would be protected from prosecution under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, a federal law that requires hospitals to treat patients who come to an emergency room regardless of their ability to pay. That includes treatment to prevent serious damage to bodily functions.
If the court decides the law does not provide that protection, then hospitals and doctors in Idaho have said they will have to continue transferring patients out of state for that treatment. Since January, when the court decided to take the case and struck down an injunction that provided protection under EMTALA, transfers out of state for pregnancy complications that may require termination increased from one in 2023 to six over the course of four months.
The courts liberal wing Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned Idaho Deputy Attorney General Josh Turner about what EMTALA explicitly says about stabilizing treatment and whether abortion procedures fall into that definition when complications occur before a fetus can survive outside of the womb.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/04/24/supreme-court-justices-appear-split-over-whether-to-protect-abortion-care-during-emergencies/
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Supreme Court justices appear split over whether to protect abortion care during emergencies (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 25
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Irish_Dem
(47,441 posts)1. Denying American females emergency medical treatment to save their lives.
The MAGA judges hate women.
Lonestarblue
(10,084 posts)3. The entire Republican Party hates women and would rather see them die than have control over their own healthcare.
Irish_Dem
(47,441 posts)5. American women must learn their place.
They will kill as many as it takes for the lesson to sink in.
Lovie777
(12,330 posts)4. Ditto....................
Think. Again.
(8,426 posts)2. I had to double-check to be sure that is an actual headline.
How did we allow our Nation to get to this?
NanaCat
(1,266 posts)7. When we let religion get away with making itself
Immune to criticism.
Think. Again.
(8,426 posts)8. Amen to that!
Frasier Balzov
(2,668 posts)6. It was probably useful for them to hear and understand
how badly they fucked up by letting legislators intervene between patient and doctor.
Now there won't be any but the most courageous obstetricians and gynecologists who are willing to practice their specializations in the banned states.
Furthermore, they will be rendering services without knowing if their malpractice insurance protects them.