A Kansas woman’s claim that a medical facility violated federal law by not properly screening and stabilizing her for a pregnancy-related emergency medical condition fails as a matter of law, the facility told a federal court.
The University of Kansas Hospital Authority moved to dismiss Mylissa Farmer’s lawsuit accusing it of violating the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act by refusing to perform a surgical abortion to stabilize her after she experienced pre-term and pre-labor rupture of the membranes. Farmer’s stabilization claim failed because she didn’t show the emergency room staff believed she had an unstable emergency medical condition, ...
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