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What the Latest Texas Abortion Ruling Means

January 4, 2024

What: An analysis of a federal court in Texas ruling that women who show up in a Texas ER needing an abortion to protect their health are not guaranteed to get one, despite a federal law that requires ERs to stabilize patients.

Why it matters: As Valenti puts it – “The judges ruled that when emergency room doctors are faced with a patient who has a dangerous or life-threatening pregnancy, they have a responsibility to ‘stabilize both the pregnant woman and her unborn child.’ That means a 6-week embryo would warrant as much emergency treatment as you do. …That’s what conservatives want, after all: for abortion rights to be reduced to court battles and political debates. For Americans to be so distracted with legal and legislative minutiae that women’s lives become theoretical.”

Source: Abortion, Every Day

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