The Republican state rejects guidance that doctors must provide abortions where a woman’s life or health is threatened, and says it is a ploy to turn hospitals into walk-in abortion clinics.
Texas has sued the Biden administration over new guidance directing hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state bans that came into effect after the US Supreme Court’s reversal of its landmark 1973 Roe v Wade decision.
“Physicians shouldn’t be forced to call a lawyer, call an ethicist, call another lawyer, call a hospital administrator while a patient is actively dying,” she said. “It is unconscionable.” The department says its guidance doesn’t reflect new policy, but reminds doctors and providers of existing obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act , which was adopted in 1986.
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