Wed Aug 24, 2022 – 5:58 pm EDT
LUBBOCK, Texas (LifeSiteNews) — A Texas federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s HHS guidance requiring that emergency room doctors in pro-life states perform abortions.
In a 67-page ruling handed down Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge James Hendrix, a Trump appointee, temporarily halted enforcement of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s guidance that would require Texas doctors to perform abortions in “emergency medical situations,” despite the fact that the Lone Star State has outlawed the practice.
A federal judge in Texas late on Tuesday temporarily blocked guidance from the Biden administration mandating that emergency care must include abortion services if a mother’s life is in jeopardy. https://t.co/4gAJvt5UXB
— Spectrum News 13 (@MyNews13) August 24, 2022
In July, the Biden administration’s HHS had directed that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986, healthcare providers must perform “life- or health-saving abortion services in emergency situations,” even in states (like Texas) that prohibit abortion. Most states with pro-life laws provide exceptions to save the life of the mother, and many pro-life advocates argue that there is never a circumstance in which abortion is medically
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