SCOTUS Sheepishly Admits It Shouldn\u2019t Have Taken Emergency Abortion Case<\/p>\n
The embarrassing reversal \u2014\u00a0which was accidentally disclosed a day early<\/a> when it was \u201cinadvertently and briefly uploaded\u201d to the Supreme Court\u2019s website \u2014 plainly indicated a growing rift at the court: the three liberal justices, who see this case as a very simple one; three conservative justices \u2014\u00a0Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts \u2014\u00a0who appear suddenly conflicted about their role putting women\u2019s health in jeopardy; and the ultra-conservative faction \u2014\u00a0Justices Samuel Alito<\/a>, Clarence Thomas<\/a> and Neil Gorsuch<\/a> \u2014\u00a0who simply don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n Supreme Court dismisses Idaho abortion challenge, allowing doctors to perform emergency abortions<\/p>\n Notably, EMTALA first came to light as a response to hospitals turning away uninsured pregnant people<\/a> in active labor. Congress passed the law in 1986 and specifically included provisions mandating federally funded hospitals to accept a patient in active labor even if she doesn\u2019t have insurance. President Ronald Reagan signed it into law. The purpose of EMTALA was to establish a nationwide baseline of emergency care that everyone is entitled to, regardless of where they live or their medical condition. Congress even included a preemption clause that said if any state law conflicts with EMTALA\u2019s requirements, EMTALA overrides the state law.<\/p>\n Read more at Salon<\/a><\/p>\n US supreme court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now<\/p>\n Although many states allow doctors to perform an emergency abortion when a woman\u2019s life or health is at risk, in effect mirroring Emtala, Idaho only allowed doctors to intervene when a woman was on the brink of death, a much higher bar for intervention. The Biden administration sued Idaho to enforce the law.<\/p>\n Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n Supreme Court dismisses Idaho case, allows abortions in medical emergencies<\/p>\n \u201cIf someone is having a crisis and part of the treatment involves an abortion \u2014 or any procedure or intervention that might be deemed an abortion by a prosecutor down the road \u2014 that is something we shouldn\u2019t have to think about,\u201d said Dr. Rob Davidson, a Michigan-based emergency physician, previously told The 19th. \u201cWhen I have a pregnant woman having a crisis, my first call should be to an OB, and not a lawyer.<\/p>\n Read more at 19th News<\/a><\/p>\n In a scathing dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says Idaho abortion ruling is \u2018not a victory for pregnant patients\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAnd for as long as we refuse to declare what the law requires, pregnant patients in Idaho Texas, and elsewhere will be paying the price,\u201d she continued. \u201cBecause we owe them \u2014 and the nation \u2014 an answer to the straightforward pre-emption question presented in these cases, I respectfully dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n Jackson Dings Court For Punting On Abortion Case When Idaho Is So Clearly Wrong<\/p>\n \u201cStorm clouds loom ahead,\u201d Jackson echoed.<\/p>\n Three justices, Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas, assert \u201cthat States have free rein to nullify federal law.\u201d Three more, she wrote, refuse to disavow that position, only \u201cmurmuring\u201d that petitioners have raised a weighty argument.<\/p>\n Read more at Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n Idaho must provide emergency abortions after Supreme Court declines to rule on case<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions remain in a precarious position, as their doctors are kept in the dark about what the law requires,\u201d Jackson warned.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SCOTUS Sheepishly Admits It Shouldn\u2019t Have Taken Emergency Abortion Case The embarrassing reversal \u2014\u00a0which was accidentally disclosed a day early when it was \u201cinadvertently and briefly uploaded\u201d to the Supreme Court\u2019s website \u2014 plainly indicated a growing rift at the court: the three liberal justices, who see this case as a very simple one; three … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,71,42,90,177],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-emtala","tag-idaho","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}