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Federal officials have ordered a probe after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get medical care recommended by her doctors to end the pregnancy because of Missouri's abortion law.
The Missouri case involves a woman who said that doctors recommended terminating her pregnancy, but that Freeman Hospital in Joplin wouldn't let them.
Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, Ohio doctors say they are stuck in an impossible position between anti-abortion laws and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act.
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has put medical providers in the tough position of deciding when emergency abortions and other life-saving procedures are necessary
ED doctors say they — and their patients — are trapped between state antiabortion laws and the federal law requiring that care be delivered in emergency situations. Women's lives hang in the balance.