Trump Administration Removes Hospital Guidance on Emergency Abortions

The Trump administration announced that it was ending Biden-era guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions for women across the country. Issued in 2022, the guidance was an effort to preserve abortion access nationwide for women in extreme cases in the wake of the Supreme Court issuing the Dobbs Decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and returned rulemaking on abortion back to the state level. The previous administration argued that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), hospitals with emergency rooms that received Medicare money to provide stabilizing treatment and examinations for all patients needed to provide emergency abortions regardless of state laws....