Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over Health and Human Services Department’s emergency abortion guidelines:
The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that a federal law protecting access to emergency treatment means hospitals must provide an abortion if a doctor deems it necessary to stabilize a patient, even if the procedure isn’t legal under state law.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal rules fly in the face of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which triggered a near-total abortion ban in Texas. The Texas law bans all abortions from the moment of fertilization.“They are trying to have their appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians perform abortions,” Mr. Paxton said of the administration. “I will ensure that President Biden will be forced to comply with the Supreme Court’s important decision concerning abortion.”
The Biden administration threatened hospitals with fines or revoking Medicare status if they do not “provide emergency abortion treatment:”
“These hospitals are now threatened with having to choose between violating state law under the threat of criminal penalty or jeopardizing their ability to participate in Medicaid,” Paxton’s office argued in the suit.Any ruling will likely be appealed. Paxton’s office argues that the federal guidance isn’t merely clarifying existing law but “includes a number of new requirements related to the provision of abortions that do not exist under federal law.”“This administration has a hard time following the law, and now they are trying to have their appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians perform abortions,” Paxton said in a statement. “I will ensure that President Biden will be forced to comply with the Supreme Court’s important decision concerning abortion and I will not allow him to undermine and distort existing laws to fit his administration’s unlawful agenda.”
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