The guidance reads: As frontline health care providers, federal statute “protects your...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C., before the court heard arguments in a challenge to the controversial Texas abortion law, which bans abortions after six weeks.
As frontline health care providers, that federal statute “protects your clinical judgment and the action that you take to provide stabilizing medical treatment to your pregnant patients, regardless of the restrictions in the state where you practice,” the guidance reads.
with the wording of the guidance, which instead said doctors alone are allowed to determine the best course of medical action in an emergency and state law can’t stop them from doing so. The case underscores the dominant position that conservative Republicans hold in the federal judicial system: Paxton filed the case in Lubbock, in the U.S. Northern District of Texas, where there are 12 judges, 10 of whom were appointed by Republican presidents and six of whom were named by former President Donald J. Trump.
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