Trump Admin. Rescinds Emergency Abortion Requirement for Hospitals
By: Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
the attempted purge of all safety nets for the most vulnerable americans continues ...
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The Trump administration has moved to revoke Biden-era federal guidelines that require hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women, regardless of state law. It's a stark reminder that amid the chaos of President Donald Trump's first few months back in office, the MAGA movement remains committed to denying women life-saving medical treatment, and their right to bodily autonomy.
The guidance — which Biden issued in 2022 in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade — was essentially a reminder to hospitals that under the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), emergency rooms that accept Medicare funding (nearly every emergency room in the country) are required to provide an exam and stabilizing care to any patient that walks through its door. The Biden administration argued that the law covered emergency abortions, should they be necessary to the health of a pregnant patient.
On Tuesday night, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a statement rescinding the directive. The agency claimed it would "continue to enforce EMTALA, which protects all individuals who present to a hospital emergency department seeking examination or treatment, including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy."
"CMS will work to rectify any perceived legal confusion and instability created by the former administration's actions," the statement added.
The decision is not the only challenge to the Biden administration's interpretation of EMTALA in recent years. Last year, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to begin enforcing a ban on virtually all abortions in the state — including emergency room abortions — in defiance of the previous administration's EMTALA guidelines.
In a separate 2024 case brought by Idaho's House speaker against the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ruled that hospitals in Idaho could provide emergency abortions while lower courts continued to debate the larger questions of EMTALA's jurisdiction. Now that Biden's guidance has been rolled back, other states could begin restricting doctors in emergency rooms from providing life-saving obstetrics treatment to patients.
"If there was ever any doubt about where the Trump administration stands on abortion, it should be clear now: even in cases of life or death, they want to block your ability to get an abortion," Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Alexis McGill Johnson wrote in a Tuesday statement. "Every day, this administration strikes another blow at our most fundamental right: to make our own decisions about our bodies and our futures. Women have died because they couldn't get the lifesaving abortion care they needed. The Trump administration is willing to let pregnant people die, and that is exactly what we can expect."
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time to use religious dogma and punishment to fight religious radicals ...
I'm sure alienating 51% of the voters will work out well for maga republicans next year. oh wait, they'll be 2nd class citizens by then, so no worries ... /s
So if you have an ectopic pregnancy you're fucked
breach the wall and take a fall ...
sounds like some thumpers might be meeting their savior ahead of schedule ...
The dichotomy between ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-birth’ is much too far for these ‘moralists’ to bridge.
They want legislation passed to undermine a woman’s rights, to supersede medical advisement, and only to align with their religious beliefs. Until of course, the child is born…when they then want legislation passed that harms said child if born into a situation where the child’s economic background, educational needs, or legal status conflicts with their partisan agenda. Hypocrisy does not begin to describe the inhumane intentions.
All the time chanting "my body my choice" when it comes to vaccines. Hypocrites all of them!!
They know they are not really Christians when they deny simple needs to even have a life. Without food, medical care, and shelter, children tend to die young
rest assured, we're both closer to god than any maga thumper scum ...
Meh...I doubt it. I won't die in a state of grace.
in reality, who does? you are familiar with the term "shit the bed", right?
Not really. Good Catholics get last rights to they die with absolution. I'm stubborn and won't ask for last rights
my ultra catholic ex-FIL died last april. he was lingering at home in hospice care after he got out of the hospital. the ex picked up on him seeming to be waiting for something and called in a chaplain. he got his last rights and then croaked less than 8 hours later.
Because cruelty is the point.
... as long as it doesn't happen to them.
In certain states you were already fucked. This just makes it official for the Trump administration.
Good gawd! It's not even a pregnancy! It's a serious medical emergency that if not treated leads to DEATH!
but, but, but, geezus ...
"The Trump administration has moved to revoke Biden-era federal guidelines that require hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women, regardless of state law."
Unless I am missing something I don't agree with this. The supreme court basically kicked abortion from the feds to the states and it seems now the fed wants to over ride what the states want.
This could be another one of the things where Republicans go too far and lose votes in the midterms.
sane thumpers will take the initiative to retreat back over the wall of separation, after religious radicals start getting splattered ...
This is another 80/20 issue that republicans are on the wrong side of. get out of peoples bedrooms and out of their healthcare.
too late ...
trumps tariffs on pharmaceuticals will take another big bite out of his most fervent loyalists too ... ... bummer, huh?
but they will keep crawling back for more. They act like abused dogs
time to start a crematorium business in florida ...
Every time a party gets ahead it seems like they do everything they can to shoot themselves in the foot.
metaphorically speaking, maga should aim for the other end ...
Dr. Oz, what will Oprah say ?