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"The stage is set for a showdown between the federal government and the states. At stake is the idea that abortion can be medically necessary health care," write @maryrziegler and @lsepper
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Opinion: The coming state-federal showdown over abortion
The federal law requires abortion in some emergency situations where the Texas law would label it a crime, write Mary Ziegler and Elizabeth Sepper. The stage is set for a showdown between the federal...
8:17 AM · Aug 5, 2022
CNN Opinion
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"The stage is set for a showdown between the federal government and the states. At stake is the idea that abortion can be medically necessary health care," write @maryrziegler and @lsepper
cnn.com
Opinion: The coming state-federal showdown over abortion
The federal law requires abortion in some emergency situations where the Texas law would label it a crime, write Mary Ziegler and Elizabeth Sepper. The stage is set for a showdown between the federal...
8:17 AM · Aug 5, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/opinions/state-federal-showdown-abortion-ziegler-sepper/index.html
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A woman turned away with an ectopic pregnancy. A miscarrying mother sent home, where she develops an infection. People with severe pregnancy complications left untreated. Within a month of the Supreme Courts decision overturning Roe v. Wade, abortion bans have thrown emergency care into disarray and put doctors in an impossible bind.
Federal law requires physicians to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, providing abortions when necessary, while the law in some states prohibits emergency abortions. A showdown between the federal government and the states is now brewing. The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration to block federal guidance that protects access to emergency abortion care, even in states where abortion is a crime. And on Tuesday, the administration went on the offensive, suing Idaho over its abortion restrictions.
At the heart of both lawsuits is a nearly 40-year-old federal statute, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA. The law assures that everyone who shows up at the emergency room gets checked out. And if the hospital finds the patient has an emergency medical condition, it has to stabilize them meaning the patients condition wont worsen when theyre discharged. That includes laboring patients, for whom EMTALA guarantees protection.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe in Dobbs v. Jacksons Womens Health Organization, the federal government reminded hospitals that emergency care of pregnant people sometimes requires abortion. Stabilizing treatment may call for dilation and curettage (D&C), a common abortion procedure, or methotrexate, a drug used for conditions like pain and inflammation thats also commonly used to end ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.
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The coming state-federal showdown over abortion (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2022
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Freddie
(9,269 posts)1. EMTALA was signed into law by St. Ronnie
Their icon.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)2. the misogyny of repukes is STAGGERING
VOTE THESE FASCIST FUCKERS OUT