This Supreme Court Case Could Worsen Maternal Health Nationwide

On April 24, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over Idaho’s denial of the full array of emergency health care, including abortions, permitted under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, known as EMTALA. In skirting federal law to enforce its abortion ban and promote the false notion that doctors must treat “the unborn” as a second patient, the state of Idaho and its legislature are rejecting common sense health care protections and risking the lives of pregnant patients. EMTALA was enacted in 1986 under the Social...