The Department of Health and Human Services is taking new steps to ensure access to abortions in emergency situations despite conservative states’ restrictions on the procedure, a move that comes as the Biden administration battles the issue in the Supreme Court.
On Monday, the HHS announced new measures that would educate both patients and hospitals on how federal law requires doctors to perform abortions in emergency situations.
The Biden administration is currently defending this interpretation of the law—the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA—in a fight with the state of Idaho before the US Supreme Court.
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