Supreme Court won't disturb Texas bar on emergency abortions

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a Texas ban on emergency abortion access.

After the high court in June prevented Idaho from enforcing a similar ban on pregnancy termination under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act or EMTALA, the Biden administration urged the justices to likewise review Texas’ prohibitions on abortion access.

The justices declined to do so — though they didn’t explain their decision to allow a lower court ruling to stand. There were no noted dissents.

Under EMTALA, federally funded hospitals must treat patients with health emergencies. And even after the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Biden administration said the federal protection still extended to emergency abortions necessary to protect the life or health of a pregnant person.

Conservative states resisted the administration’s order, claiming their abortion bans superseded EMTALA.

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