Democrats had wanted ruling that forced doctors to perform procedures when it was an ’emergency’
By Bob Unruh
The Biden-Harris regime has lost a key battle in its agenda to impose an abortion-on-demand ideology on states, with the Supreme Court declining to take up the administration’s case that demanded an endorsement of what Democrats and other leftists insist are emergency abortions.
The dispute involved the abortion rules in Texas, which ban most procedures and is one of the strictest definitions in the country.
Abortion promoters have claimed that the federal emergency medical services law requires physicians to perform abortions, whether they want to or not, under certain circumstances.
The Supreme Court, without comment, let stand allow a lower court’s ruling that bars those procedures that violate state law.
The lower court ruling, which now stands, said hospitals cannot be required to provide abortion if they are in violation of state law.
Biden and Harris in this case and in another involving a similar law in Idaho had claimed that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act trumped any state law that imposed what they thought were limits on emergency abortions.
The Democrats wanted the high court to toss that lower court ruling, claiming hospitals are required under federal law to do abortions.
The justices had dismissed the Idaho case just weeks ago, and the result there was that lower courts allowed emergency abortions to resume while the state’s challenge continues.
The pro-abortion agenda in the White House had cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said physicians are not required to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally.
But the state explained that its law, unlike Idaho’s, contains an exception for the health of a pregnant patient.
A report from CBS explained the decision “leaves in place a lower court decision that blocked the federal government from enforcing guidance it issued to hospitals notifying them that they must provide emergency abortions if the health of the mother is at risk.”
The move has been one of a multitude by Biden and Harris to push for vast expansions of America’s lucrative abortion industry. They’ve often done this not by changing the law, but by manipulating “rules” and “regulations” to impose an abortion-for-all ideology.
In this case, the regime used the rules issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. which told states in 2022 that if a state abortion law does not include the abortion promotions they want, it was preempted by federal law.