NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require hospitals in Texas hospitals to provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require hospitals in Texas hospitals to provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The Biden administration reminded hospitals of their obligation to perform life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Texas sued, arguing it was an overstep that mandated abortions.
The Biden administration issued guidance saying hospitals "must" provide abortion services if there's a risk to the mother's life, citing a 1986 law. The court said the law cannot be used to require emergency care abortions in Texas.
A federal court of appeals ruled this week that emergency rooms in Texas cannot be forced to perform abortions to stabilize a patient, when abortion is considered illegal.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a ruling that sided with the state on whether emergency rooms are required to perform emergency abortions.
A panel of judges on a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration can’t compel emergency room doctors in Texas to perform abortions.
The administration had issued guidance saying hospitals "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, citing a 1986 law that requires hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment for anyone who arrives at the emergency room.
The extremely strict abortion bans in Texas won again in the federal courts on Tuesday. The federal appeals court in New Orleans sided with Texas in a case about abortions in emergencies.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a long-standing national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House's strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional rig…
After a federal appeals court ruled Jan. 2 that emergency doctors in Texas are not required to perform abortions – blocking guidance previously issued by the federal government – the state’s Catholic bishops said that they celebrate the decision.
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