EMTALA offers limited but essential protections for pregnant people in emergencies. Without them, people here will face morbidity and mortality--they will suffer unspeakable tragedies. They already are. The Court just made the situation in abortion ban states worse
Four Texas women who were denied abortion care after facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications tell their stories.
This summer, the Court sent a similar case involving Idaho's abortion ban and EMTALA back to the lower court. Some (many?) believed the PR that Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh were so moved by the plight of pregnant people that they changed their minds. The foolishness. I could spit nails
The Supreme Court began the year poised to build on its 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade and to deliver a new blow to abortion access.
And this is what Trump means when he says that he will “leave it to the states” and that he will be women’s “protector.” The status quo and worse (with more Trump judicial appointments).