Posted on 07/15/2022 9:42:53 AM PDT by Morgana
The state of Texas sued the federal government Thursday after the Biden administration said federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life, even in cases where state law mostly bans the procedure.
The lawsuit, which names the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra among its defendants, says the guidance issued by the Biden administration earlier this week is unlawful, and that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act does not cover abortions.
“The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said as he announced the lawsuit. He said the federal government isn’t authorized to require emergency healthcare providers to perform abortions.
The legal wrangling is causing concern for doctors. Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, a Dallas-based OB/GYN and former abortion provider, said emergency departments may face these situations frequently — when patients experience miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies, or when a woman's water breaks before a fetus is viable.
“Physicians shouldn’t be forced to call a lawyer, call an ethicist, call another lawyer, call a hospital administrator while a patient is actively dying,” she said. “It is unconscionable.”
The lawsuit comes after the Biden administration told hospitals on Monday that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws that have near total bans on the procedure, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right.
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No state bans abortions if the mothers life is genuinely at risk. Nor should they.
Bidet is such a stupid little (fill it in as you desire). How impotent can one old man be? He wastes more time on things that are not in his control,then ignores what he can change. He is deaf to the cries of the Ametican people. I dare the media to assemble at one his most infrequent appearances, then as he begins blathering the stupidest comments he always makes, all walk out of the room. I want him to feel something of the helplessness the people feel under his governance. Make him feel bad,stupid and hated. Make him cry.
Please! For the love of God please! Texans it’s time to secede from the union! America is not the country that it once was and all we have are terrorists leaders and anti American backstabbers. These people are willing to kill off the American family for the sake of power money greed etc.! Ughhhhbhb!!!! ENOUGGGGGGGGGHHHH! May all the red states rally cry be “SECESSION “!!!!!! It’s time!
Agree!!
He knows it but wants to make it sound like he did something PR mode.
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