Posted on 08/28/2022 6:59:31 PM PDT by marshmallow
A federal judge in Idaho has barred the state from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies over concerns that it violates a federal law on emergency care.
The ruling Wednesday evening came after a federal judge this week in Texas made the opposite call, barring the federal government from enforcing a legal interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act that would require Texas hospitals to provide abortion services if the health or life of the mother is at risk.
In Idaho, the ban makes performing an abortion in any “clinically diagnosable pregnancy” a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Much of Idaho’s law will still go into effect Thursday, but U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Wednesday the state cannot prosecute anyone who is performing an abortion in an emergency medical situation.
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this is just wrong
thry are trying to warp emergency life saving surgeries with abortions in order to get them performed by hospitals and considered normal
ectopic pregnancies have never been considered abortions, NEVER has the medical community considered them to be that
They have never been described to the public as abortions
Same with any emergency surgery where they cannot save the baby because its too early or her internals are damaged and can’t support it, that has NEVER been regarded by anyone in the medical field as an abortion.
They are trying to twist and pervert these conditions as abortions, and they never have been.
they are trying to get the foot in the door to hospitals to perform actual abortions and are trying to use these emergency procedures that have never been considered abortions, as cover to legitimize ANY kind of abortion being done in hospital.
He'll do what his fellow Democrats want him to do [yes, he's an OPEN member of the Democrat party].
its not just one person doing this
this is being parroted all across the country and in the media
I wonder if, when someone comes in with a hang nail, they will try the pass it off as an emergency, and do an abortion?
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