{"id":1554851,"date":"2022-07-14T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554851"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:51:35","slug":"texas-sues-biden-administration-over-ordering-hospitals-to-perform-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-sues-biden-administration-over-ordering-hospitals-to-perform-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Ordering Hospitals to Perform Abortions"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftexas-sues-biden-administration-over-ordering-hospitals-to-perform-abortions%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=1554851&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> on July 14 sued the federal government over a recent document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-admin-says-hospitals-must-provide-abortions-in-emergencies-despite-state-laws_4591228.html\">that says abortions must be performed<\/a> even if the procedures are not allowed by state laws.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance amounts to an abortion mandate and is illegal because it violates multiple laws, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/qso-22-22-hospitals.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) was promulgated on July 11 by the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n<p>It tells state survey agency directors that under the\u00a0Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a doctor at an emergency department who is presented with a pregnant woman who has an emergency medical condition\u00a0\u201cmust\u201d perform an abortion if the abortion is a necessary \u201cstabilizing treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The abortion must be done even in states where the law \u201cprohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life and health of the pregnant person,\u201d the guidance says. \u201cThat state law is preempted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, on the same day, told health care providers across the nation that \u201cstabilizing treatment\u201d could include abortion, \u201cirrespective of any state laws or mandates that apply to specific procedures.\u201d He said in the letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/emergency-medical-care-letter-to-health-care-providers.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) that per the emergency labor act, the physician \u201cmust provide\u201d an abortion in certain cases.<\/p>\n<p>Texas officials see the situation differently.<\/p>\n<p> Abortions Not Required by Law <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Abortion Mandate requires that a provider perform an abortion if \u2018abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve [an emergency medical condition].\u2019 This condition has never been a part of EMTALA,\u201d they said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22087378-texas-complaint\">a 20-page suit<\/a>, filed in federal court in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p>EMTALA \u201cdoes not mandate, direct, approve, or even suggest the provision of any specific treatment\u201d and, \u201csays nothing about abortion,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance violates Texas\u2019s sovereignty, according to the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas on July 14 sued the federal government over a recent document that says abortions must be performed even if the procedures are not allowed by state laws. The guidance amounts to an abortion mandate and is illegal because it violates multiple laws, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said. 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