Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major win protecting the rights of Texas hospitals and doctors to refuse to provide abortions that are prohibited by State law.
The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) declined to hear arguments in a case seeking to overturn an injunction preventing the Biden-Harris Administration from enforcing unlawful abortion guidance. The injunction will remain in place.
The guidance, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), unlawfully attempted to force medical providers to perform abortions in violation of State law.
The Biden-Harris Administration attempted to do so under a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (“EMTALA”).
The law, enacted by Congress to ensure hospitals do not refuse essential emergency medical care because of a patient’s inability to pay, says nothing about abortion, but was used as a pretext by the Administration to attempt to force medical providers to provide and perform abortions.
If the HHS guidance had taken effect, Texas doctors and medical institutions could have faced severe financial consequences, such as being excluded from Medicare, for refusing to violate State law in order to comply with the unconstitutional federal mandate.
In July 2022, Attorney General Paxton sued the Biden-Harris Administration over the guidance. A federal district court issued an injunction blocking the unlawful guidance in August 2022, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the injunction in January 2024.
Now, SCOTUS has refused to take up the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempt to reverse the injunction.
“This is a major victory at SCOTUS that will protect Texas medical providers from being forced to violate State law,” said Attorney General Paxton. “No Texas doctor should be forced to violate his or her conscience or the law just to do their job. We successfully sued and stopped the Biden-Harris Administration’s backdoor attempt to overrule State abortion laws.”
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those abortion freaks just don’t get it, when the little tadpole breaks thru the egg bingo life begins so if you kill the egg at any point in its development you are preventing a human from being born, i would say murdering a human to be born, who knows the little bug just might grow up to be the one who finds a cure for cancer or what ever, so sad are those things
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Indeed. Very sad.
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That’s right. Bingo. A real person in a little speck.
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