The Trump administration announced this week that it would revoke guidance to the nation’s hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) for women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.

The guidance was issued to hospitals nationwide in 2022, as part of an effort by the Biden administration to preserve abortion access in instances of medical emergencies, weeks after the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision.

Nourbese Flint, abortion rights expert and President of All* Above All, a leading abortion justice organization, issued the following statement in response:

“If you’re pregnant and need an abortion to save your life, your zip code shouldn’t determine if you live or die. But that is exactly what the Trump Administration is advocating for by threatening federal protections for pregnant people.

Erasing this guidance for hospitals only stokes more fear and confusion that is already putting lives on the line in waiting rooms and ERs across the country. The fact is that every hospital must perform life-saving abortion care in emergency cases, no matter where they are located, period.

Abortion care is health care. There is no place for politics in the emergency room.”

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