Yeah, I can see the liberals launching more lawsuits, despite it being totally Constitutional for one president to cancel another’s EO
Trump Rescinds Biden Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had revoked a Biden administration requirement that hospitals provide emergency abortions to women whose health is in peril, including in states where abortion is restricted or banned.
The move by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a branch of the department led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was not a surprise. But it added to growing confusion around emergency care and abortions since June 2022, when the Supreme Court rescinded the national right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.
“It basically gives a bright green light to hospitals in red states to turn away pregnant women who are in peril,” Lawrence O. Gostin, a health law expert at Georgetown University, said of the Trump administration’s move.
The administration did not explicitly tell hospitals that they were free to turn away women seeking abortions in medical emergencies. Its policy statement said hospitals would still be subject to a federal law requiring them to provide reproductive health care in emergency situations. But it did not explain exactly what that meant.
Oh, wait, look at that, it only took the NY Times 4 paragraphs to say that hospitals couldn’t blindly turn away pregnant women in distress. Usually something like that ends up at least 2/3rds of the way in.
At issue is how the government should interpret the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a 1986 law aimed at discouraging hospitals from turning away patients who lack insurance or cannot afford care. The law requires hospitals that receive federal funding to treat or stabilize emergency patients, or transfer them to a facility that can provide care.
The law does not specifically include abortion, but Mr. Gostin said administrations going back to President George W. Bush have interpreted it that way. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe, the Biden administration reminded hospitals that the law obligated them to provide abortions in cases where they were medically necessary.
At the end of the day, nothing is more important to Democrats than killing the unborn. Nothing.
The Biden policy resulted in lawsuits; the Biden administration sued Idaho, and Texas sued the administration. Both states asserted that their laws restricting abortion superseded the emergency medical act. Idaho has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, offering an exception only when the life — not the health — of the mother is at risk.
That “health” is the way the abortionistas get around everything in pushing late term abortions.
Abortion should be allowable under only one circumstance, an immediate threat to the life of the mother; if the mother dies, her unborn child will die with her. If the child’s life can be saved, that should be mandatory.
Abortion is mentioned in the Bible. It requires the payment of 2 shekels to be paid to the father. The Jews do not believe that the fetus is human or has a soul. The “soul” enters the fetus when it draws its first breathe, that is the “quickening” Who considers the death of a embryo in a petri dish to be murder? Must embryos not used as part of invitro pregnancies be kept alive forever? should miscarriages caused by accidental or intentional be considered at a minimum, manslaughter? Does BIG GOVRERNMENT own all fetuses?
Is the mother a slave to the fetus? can she opt to have the fetus removed alive and given to the state which apparently claims rights to it? Should Plan B (the day after pill (chemical abortion) be banned?
who would like to comment on the Biblical “Trial By Bitter Herbs” Isn’t that chemical abortion? Israel has legal abortion as part of its free health care system.