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- Sacred Heart Emergency Center is pictured March 29, 2024, in Houston. The Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when
To understand how disruptive the Supreme Court’s decision in Corner Post will be, consider another seemingly unrelated case.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is going to decide on abortion. The court said it will hear two challenges to Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion law, without waiting for lower courts in the state to rule on them first.
The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman's health, following last week's Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that it would hear two cases filed by Attorney General Josh Kaul and Planned Parenthood that will determine if Wisconsinites have a right to abortion care.
The contested statutes, enacted in 1849, were largely interpreted to prohibit abortions except to save the mother's life.
Agency leaders reminded hospital groups that providers' requirements under federal emergency medical law are still in place, even with court cases brewing.
Abortion remains legal as an emergency medical procedure in Idaho, for now, after a Thursday, June 27, U.S. Supreme Court ruling, while a bill that would cement those protections in Illinois law awaits Gov.