Federal officials have ordered a probe after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get medical care recommended by her doctors to end the pregnancy because of Missouri s abortion law.
ED doctors say they and their patients are trapped between state antiabortion laws and the federal law requiring that care be delivered in emergency situations. Women s lives hang in the balance.
Here s a look at how the dueling cases in Idaho and Texas could affect the fraught medical and legal landscape after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion.
The lawsuit, which names the HHS and Secretary Xavier Becerra among its defendants, says the guidance issued is unlawful, and that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act does not cover abortions.