#SCOTUS is hearing arguments on whether hospitals must provide emergency #abortions in states w bans.
At issue is a nearly 40-yr-old fed law that requires hospitals that receive fed funds to stabilize or transfer all emergency patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Biden admin invoked the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to argue that the federal government has the power to penalize hospitals that fail to provide emergency abortions even in states with strict bans.
@GottaLaff yo this is bad. I've been a paramedic for 14 years, EMTALA is a lynchpin law to our emergency medical system that guarantees that you will be treated regardless of your ability to pay. It exists because hospitals were turning away homeless and broke people having life threatening emergencies, and since then they've only become even more private equity and profit driven, so I can personally guarantee we'd speedrun a return to that if EMTALA got whacked.
@SherBeareth And as I’ve said for years, they don’t really sanctify the fetus. If they did, they wouldn’t cut $ for food, health, and poverty programs that help the fetus and the person carrying it to thrive.
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