In a way, you’re torturing the women because you’re not providing the definitive care until you can say they’re at the brink of death,
The law in Idaho protects unborn children and protects the life of the mother, and any instance where the life of mother’s in jeopardy, [abortion] will be allowed by the state of Idaho.”
What other medical condition can we think of that would require a patient who’s sick to get transported to another state for a legal reason?”
That’s what keeps me up — that somebody’s going to be placed in harm’s way, or a transport is going to go bad and there’s going to be a significant injury to the mother,
This isn't complicated. No one should be denied medical treatment during a life-threatening emergency."
If the woman is going to lose her reproductive organs, that's enough to trigger this duty on the part of the hospital to stabilize the patient."
Performing an abortion is antithetical to that duty,
This lawsuit represents a bad faith effort to politicize what is a vital protection for the health and economic security of millions of families, and a continuation of the alarming attacks on women’s health and reproductive choice,
This is yet another attempt by the Biden administration to force through administrative fiat what it cannot get passed through Congress,
It makes no sense that we’re just going to wait until you’re on death’s door and then we’ll act,
Having her stay pregnant for hours or days longer, until she’s in a situation where we can declare her medical condition life-threatening, does nothing to benefit the baby and only harms the mother, ... We are adding trauma onto a situation that’s already traumatizing, and to feel like our hands are tied by a state legislature who doesn’t understand this clinical detail is super frustrating.”
They said we’re surprised that you’re still pregnant, given the severity of what we’re seeing on ultrasound. Most people would have miscarried by now,
We were both disgusted by the treatment of our state,
The idea of not acting, which might hasten the clinical situation to worsen, so that we can act only at the very end is counterintuitive to anything in medicine that I know,
There are federal conscience protections that apply at the entity level to hospitals,
I know of no state that does not include a life-saving exception, ... Some have been debating it, at least."
Even states that have sharply restricted access to abortion after Dobbsgenerally allow exceptions to safeguard the mother's health,
I think you've hardly been given an opportunity to answer some of the hypotheticals, ... This is not how I practice medicine; I need to know a lot more about the individual case."
Hospitals are then required to provide stabilizing treatment for patients with EMCs. If a hospital is unable to stabilize a patient within its capability, or if the patient requests, an appropriate transfer should be implemented,
If an individual doctor has a conscience objection to provide pregnancy termination, EMTALA itself imposes obligations at the entity level and the hospital should have plans in place to honor the individual doctor's conscience objection while ensuring appropriate staffing for emergency care,