The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) scrapped an abortion mandate under former President Joe Biden, forcing emergency room doctors and non-abortion emergency hospitals to perform abortions even if it violated their beliefs.
Biden’s admin mandate was its interpretation of the “Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act,” or EMTALA.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) sued on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association, but will now drop the case.
The media and the left have framed the story as anti-female, twisting it to brainwash people into thinking the administration wants pregnant women to die.
Well, even in states with strict abortion laws, doctors are allowed to treat ectopic pregnancies and other life-threatening conditions.
Unfortunately, the CMS released a vague press release, allowing pro-abortion people and the media to spread fear.
CMS said it would “work to rectify any perceived legal confusion and instability created by the former administration’s actions.”
“CMS will continue to enforce EMTALA, which protects all individuals who present to a hospital emergency department seeking examination or treatment, including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy,” according to the press release.
However, if one sits back and actually thinks, it seems to protect pro-life doctors and religious private hospitals.
You cannot get an abortion at a Catholic hospital. As far as I know, Catholic hospitals and medical systems like Mercy don’t even perform vasectomies or tie a woman’s tubes. (If I’m wrong, please let me know.)
It also means a pro-life doctor at a facility that performs abortions isn’t forced to perform an abortion.
In other words…freedom of religion.
All states allow abortion if the mother’s life is truly in jeopardy.
But in this day and age…there are so few instances where it’s hard to justify ending an unborn human’s life to save the mother.
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