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Federal law requires doctors to provide stabilizing care. But will SCOTUS say abortion bans override the EMTALA?

A federal law that allows emergency departments to treat patients without regard to their ability to pay will be under U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny this week, and Ohio doctors are concerned about the case’s local impact on emergency abortion care. The nation’s highest court will hear oral arguments in Idaho v. United States, in which […] The post Ohio doctors fear effects of emergency abortion care case set to go before U.S. Supreme Court appeared first on Ohio Capital Journal.

Two years after Dobbs, there is still confusion about what exceptions to state abortion laws allow.

The idea of a doctor in the United States having to consider the risk of imprisonment before performing an emergency abortion might have been difficult to imagine just two years ago. But after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide, such dilemmas are a reality in several states that have since adopted Republican-backed near-total bans that include the threat of criminal penalties and loss of medical licensure. The court on Wednesday is set to hear arguments in a case pitting Idaho's strict abortion ban against a ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court decided in January to consider a case about whether a federal law regarding emergency medical treatment supersedes an abortion ban in Idaho, air transports out of state for pregnancy complications at one of the state’s largest hospitals have increased from one in all of 2023 to six in the past […] The post Loss of federal protection in Idaho spurs pregnant patients to plan for emergency air transport appeared first on Ohio Capital Journal.