{"id":1549160,"date":"2022-07-11T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549160"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:19:44","slug":"biden-admin-says-hospitals-must-provide-abortions-in-emergencies-despite-state-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-says-hospitals-must-provide-abortions-in-emergencies-despite-state-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Says Hospitals Must Provide Abortions in Emergencies Despite State Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-says-hospitals-must-provide-abortions-in-emergencies-despite-state-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549160&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Department of Health and Human Services (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hhs\">HHS<\/a>) said Monday that hospitals must provide abortions in emergency situations when a woman suffering from an emergency medical condition needs to be stabilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care\u2014including abortion care,\u201d said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in a statement. \u201cToday, in no uncertain terms, we are reinforcing that we expect providers to continue offering these services, and that federal law preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2022\/07\/11\/following-president-bidens-executive-order-protect-access-reproductive-health-care-hhs-announces-guidance-clarify-that-emergency-medical-care-includes-abortion-services.html\">he added<\/a>, \u201cwomen have the right to emergency care\u2014including abortion care.\u201d The statement was issued alongside guidance via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra claimed that a federal\u00a0statute called the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act allows providers to use their own clinical judgment in the actions that they can take to provide treatment during emergency medical conditions.\u00a0That federal law, he said, supersedes state abortion bans in emergency circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The statute \u201crequires that Medicare hospitals provide all patients an appropriate medical screening, examination, stabilizing treatment, and transfer, if necessary, irrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures,\u201d the HHS news release said.<\/p>\n<p>If a hospital violates the statute, the facility could lose its Medicaid and Medicare provider agreements, while an\u00a0individual physician could face civil penalties.<\/p>\n<p> More Action <\/p>\n<p>It comes three days after\u00a0President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-signs-executive-order-aimed-at-making-sure-women-can-get-abortions_4585779.html\">signed<\/a> an executive order to ensure that women can obtain abortions. In that order, Biden directed HHS to expand access to a drug known as\u00a0Mifeprex, which can terminate a pregnancy up to the 10th week of pregnancy, among other measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/11\/GettyImages-1241841835_Biden-1200x720.jpg\"><\/a> President Joe Biden speaks during an event commemorating the passage of the Safer Communities Act at the White House in the District of Columbia on July 11, 2022. (Nicholas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday that hospitals must provide abortions in emergency situations when a woman suffering from an emergency medical condition needs to be stabilized. \u201cUnder the law, no matter where you live, women have the right to emergency care\u2014including abortion care,\u201d said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}