Opinion - Supreme Court seems skeptical on emergency abortions
If you want fewer women and girls to die because of pregnancy complications, it’s important to elect lawmakers to Congress who care about that, too. Because the Supreme Court does not appear to be coming to the rescue.
Last week, the court left in place a lower federal court ruling in Texas that bans the Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing a federal health care law. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires hospitals that receive Medicare funding to provide whatever treatment is necessary to stabilize patients with emergency conditions that seriously threaten their lives or health — including care that could terminate a pregnancy.
The Texas case is one of several making their way through the federal courts that pit the federal EMTALA law against competing draconian state abortion laws. Since the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, 14 states have enacted near-total bans on abortions.
In Texas, doctors who perform abortions can be criminally prosecuted and face life in prison unless prosecutors agree with the medical judgment that a particular patient had “a life-threatening condition” and was “at risk of death or ‘substantial impairment of a major bodily function’ when an abortion was performed.” The law contains no exceptions for rape or incest, or for fetuses with severe abnormalities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-supreme-court-seems-skeptical-121500758.html
These assholes are not pro life,