Allowing Idaho to enforce its near-total abortion ban against Medicare-participating hospitals will threaten medical professionals with criminal prosecution if they provide patients with federally required emergency care, the US told a federal appeals court.
The federal government asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 30 for full-court reconsideration of an order that allowed Idaho to enforce state law in circumstances that allegedly conflict with hospitals’ duties under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. An immediate administrative stay of the order issued by a motions panel on Sept. 28 is needed to prevent immediate ...
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