The Biden administration told health care providers in a letter dated Monday that they “must” provide abortion services if the pregnant person’s life is at risk, saying federal law preempts state laws or mandates that have banned the procedure in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Trump proved the President can do whatever he wants. No need to ask permission from anyone.
My ex-wife was a home-birth midwife in a huge Amish - Old-order-Mennonite community. She and her partner did anywhere from 150-200 births each and every year.
Whenever, in a birth-situation, a choice needed to be made between the life of the mother or of the baby, the mother is always chosen.
There are myriad reasons for this, but while they frown upon abortion as a valid form of birth control, they will save the mother.
A group of pro-abortion activists in Michigan have succeeded in collecting close to double the signatures necessary to get a question on the ballot this fall that, if approved by voters, would codify abortion rights into the state constitution.
Lets hope they didn’t hire that fraud firm that screwed the Republican Gubernatorial candidates…
caveat - a republican president can do whatever he wants. Our court of mullahs will let a Democratic president know what he/she can do.
States to file an emergency injunction request straight to Justice Alito in 3…2…1…
Does this convey legal protections to those subsequently prosecuted by state authorities (e.g. “Supremacy Clause” immunities, federal legal representation, financial reimbursement for state penalties)?
Why must it be limited to when state law “does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person”? Why can’t it extend to rape cases – or even to just “providing healthcare” to a woman who exercises autonomy over her own body for whatever reason she chooses?
(OT but related: Have any Democratic governors in states with Republican legislatures – MI, PA, and KY come to mind – publicly announced a blanket-pardon policy for anyone charged with violating post-Roe anti-choice laws in their state?)
Good dog … good dog…
Geeze! Why does controlling women’s reproductive abilities and women’s lives in general have to be so complicated?!?!
trump spent a year, all told, of his term playing golf…
Another year pontificating about how great he is.
Only a rabid misogynist would watch a mother die rather than save her. These repressive laws are nothing more than frank, overt hatred of women by men (and some self-loathing women). They are having their moment and there is no end to the suffering they will gleefully inflict on women and girls just because they can. It has never been about a baby. In fact, they are quite content to force traumatized little girls, who not too long ago were “precious babies” to carry a rapist’s spawn to term even if it destroys their tiny 10 year old bodies. Interesting that malevolence begins with “male”. The many men who support privacy and choice must speak up and in large numbers. It must be difficult to keep fighting the woman-haters but their voices are profoundly important.
“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then – now we got we to clean that back up.”
Hershel Walker.
I get it the imbeciles of Georgia are also entitled to representation, but really, the man must be the dumbest candidate ever. I am starting to feel bad of making fun of him, my mom taught me not to pick on handicapped people.
Thanks for that. Not all men are women haters or worse.
And a fair amount of the woman-haters are women themselves.
Now @ me
So, will HHS and the DOJ enforce EMTALA against many Catholic hospitals that refuse to provide an abortion to women on the verge of death or in dire medical conditions?
EMTALA legislation was signed in 1986. How come this law wasn’t brought up by ANYONE on “Roe Friday” when the idiot Supremes struck down Roe?
He’s relying on the authority granted under EMTALA which mandates “if any individual (whether or not eligible for benefits under this subchapter) comes to a hospital and the hospital determines that the individual has an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide either” stabilize the medical condition or transfer the individual to another facility.
His authority under EMTALA is limited to emergency situations. EMTALA defines an emergency medical condition as:
"with respect to a pregnant woman who is having contractions—
(i) that there is inadequate time to effect a safe transfer to another hospital before delivery, or
(ii) that transfer may pose a threat to the health or safety of the woman or the unborn child.
Wisconsin’s attorney general last December said he would not prosecute or investigate anyone for having an abortion.
