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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]..and those women are miscarrying

Unintended consequences of "pro-life" policies.  The "forced birthers" are causing forced birth of dead babies.

[quote]Pregnant patients have “become radioactive to emergency departments” in states with extreme abortion restrictions, said Sara Rosenbaum, a George Washington University health law and policy professor.

“They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone," Rosenbaum said.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/emergency-rooms-refused-treat-pregnant-040150594.html[/quote]

That seems to violate federal law. Why is it that forced birthers have no problem going after hospitals, but prochoice advocates are cowards?

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/regulations-guidance/legislation/emergency-medical-treatment-labor-act[/quote]

Did you read the article?  It’s based entirely on investigative reports from CMS finding violations of federal law.[/quote]
Those red states are trying to weaken federal laws protecting patients . From the article:

[quote]Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday that could weaken those protections. The Biden administration has sued Idaho over its abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, arguing it conflicts with the federal law.[/quote]

This is Idaho's stance:

[quote]But the state's attorney general has argued that its abortion ban is “consistent” with federal law, which calls for emergency rooms to protect an unborn child in medical emergencies.

"The Biden administration has no business rewriting federal law to override Idaho’s law and force doctors to perform abortions,” Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said in a statement earlier this year.[/quote]

Is the mother not the patient?

I'm no lawyer, but that argument doesn't seem to address the federal law that's been there since before the overturning of rvw, and it doesn't seem to address the requirement that no hospital receiving federal funding turn away a patient, or at the least, provide transport to another hospital that can help the patient.

Can some smart lawyer explain Idaho's argument here?[/quote]

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