{"id":21224,"date":"2022-07-22T14:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:19:49","slug":"texas-sues-hhs-says-biden-admin-trying-to-transform-every-emergency-room-in-the-country-into-walk-in-abortion-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-sues-hhs-says-biden-admin-trying-to-transform-every-emergency-room-in-the-country-into-walk-in-abortion-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sues HHS, Says Biden Admin. Trying to \u2018Transform Every Emergency Room in the Country into Walk-In Abortion Clinic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Kelley<\/a> – July 21, 2022<\/p>\n

The State of Texas, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its attempt to \u201ctransform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawsuit<\/a>, filed on July 14th, claims that \u201cthe Biden Administration\u2019s response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Org.<\/em>, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), which ended the terrible regime of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, is to attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s directive, released on July 11th, is a clarification<\/a> of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)<\/a>, a law that forces hospitals to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay and protects doctors from being prosecuted under state laws if they perform a procedure that they deem necessary to save a patient from death or serious injury in an emergency situation.<\/p>\n

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra\u2019s letter says that \u201cemergency medical conditions involving pregnant patients may include, but are not limited to, ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or emergent hypertensive disorders, such as preeclampsia with severe features.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becerra\u2019s letter<\/a> goes on to state that an abortion may be an appropriate stabilizing treatment for pregnant patients with an emergency medical condition:
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\n\u201cWhen a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life and health of the pregnant person – or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA\u2019s emergency medical condition definition – that state law is preempted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Paxton\u2019s lawsuit disagrees with this assertion: \u201cTo the contrary, EMTALA \u2018do[es] not preempt any State or local law requirement, except to the extent that the requirement directly conflicts with a requirement of EMTALA.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

EMTALA does not codify any right or access to abortion, so there is no direct conflict between EMTALA and a state law banning abortion, the suit alleges.<\/p>\n

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Ben Kelley – July 21, 2022 The State of Texas, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its attempt to \u201ctransform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.\u201d The lawsuit, filed on July 14th, claims that \u201cthe Biden Administration\u2019s response … Continue reading Texas Sues HHS, Says Biden Admin. Trying to \u2018Transform Every Emergency Room in the Country into Walk-In Abortion Clinic\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[43,1110,16871,16872,4165,16870,6960],"class_list":["post-21224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-clinic","tag-attorney-general-ken-paxton","tag-emtala","tag-roe-v-wade","tag-state-of-texas","tag-xavier-becerra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5wk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21226,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}