The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice is dismissing its case against Idaho’s law, withdrawing legal defense of EMTALA that was taken up under the Biden Administration. If the court order allowing emergency care goes away, lives will be in danger who need abortions in Idaho once again. This also threatens the enforcement of EMTALA when it comes to emergency abortions nationwide.

Our statement from Nourbese Flint, President of All* Above All, a leading abortion justice organization:

“Today we see another stage of Donald Trump and his Administration’s extremist agenda, proving they would rather let pregnant women across the country die than get an emergency procedure. This case highlights the life and death consequences of abortion access – make no mistake, this is about whether pregnant people, particularly people working to make ends meet, immigrants, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people, deserve the right to survive a medical emergency.

“Particularly amid a maternal health crisis where Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy than white mothers, EMTALA is lifesaving. Without it, pregnancy could become a death sentence.”