The Biden Administration’s EMTALA Challenge Could Shape Abortion Access Across the Country

The Biden Administration’s EMTALA Challenge Could Shape Abortion Access Across the Country

The Washington Post

The Biden administration has been cautious about using the law to penalize hospitals that fail to provide abortions in emergency situations or if the White House is wrongly applying a nearly 40-year-old emergency-care law to justify access to abortions. In a separate case in Texas, the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled against the Biden Administration, saying Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under EMTALA. The Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to

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