The Biden Administration has made abortion its prime mandate since the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health decision that came down in June 2021, and two important federal court decisions protecting the unborn were announced this past week.
First, the U.S. Supreme Court “granted an emergency request to Idaho officials Friday, which allows the state to enforce its abortion laws as a legal challenge from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice continues.
Idaho law prohibits all abortions from the moment of conception, except when necessary to prevent the death of a pregnant woman.
The DOJ lawsuit challenging the ban argues that it violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. According to the DOJ, this law requires that hospitals that receive Medicare funding provide “stabilizing treatment” to patients with an “emergency medical condition.” The lawsuit claims that Idaho law would prevent hospitals from fulfilling this obligation. [Read more here.]
The Biden Administration employed a similar argument, asserting that abortions are “stabilizing treatment,” in an attempt to force Emergency Room Doctors in Texas to perform abortions, threatening to withhold Medicare funds if they did not comply.
A three-judge panel on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously that “federal law does not require hospitals to commit abortions and the Biden administration cannot hold Medicare funds hostage to force them to do so,” Lifesite News reports. (Read more here.)