{"id":1555003,"date":"2022-07-14T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555003"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T21:19:59","slug":"texas-ag-sues-biden-admin-for-trying-to-force-abortions-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-ag-sues-biden-admin-for-trying-to-force-abortions-in-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas AG Sues Biden Admin For Trying To Force Abortions In State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ftexas-ag-sues-biden-admin-for-trying-to-force-abortions-in-state%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=1555003&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1407563460-scaled-e1657825539418.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Biden Administration for using the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to try to force abortions in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over its use of the EMTALA to force hospitals to <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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perform<\/a>\u00a0abortions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/emergency-medical-care-letter-to-health-care-providers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outside<\/a>\u00a0of Texas law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/executive-management\/20220714_1-0_Original%20Complaint%20Biden%20Admin.pdf?utm_content=&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_name=&#038;utm_source=govdelivery&#038;utm_term=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the complaint. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/biden-hhs-abortion-emergency-xavier-becerra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden\u2019s HHS Says Healthcare Providers Must Perform \u2018Emergency\u2019 Abortions)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden is attempting to twist federal law to force abortions in TX. SCOTUS returned the issue to states. TX law protects pre-born life. Biden\u2019s HHS is attempting to undo all that.<\/p>\n<p>Not on my watch. I just filed suit. I\u2019ll ensure the left\u2019s abortion agenda can\u2019t reach TX babies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P84jlF893T\">pic.twitter.com\/P84jlF893T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenPaxtonTX\/status\/1547617487742595076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration\u2019s response to Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Org, which ended the terrible regime of Roe v. Wade, is to attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,\u201d the complaint stated. \u201c[The Biden Administration\u2019s] Abortion Mandate forces hospitals and doctors to commit crimes and risk their licensure under Texas law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/12\/biden-hhs-abortion-emergency-xavier-becerra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clarified<\/a> Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/07\/08\/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-protecting-access-to-reproductive-health-care-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order<\/a> on abortion authorized the EMTALA to preempt state laws and require hospitals to provide abortions in the case of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint argues that the HHS misuses the EMTALA because it \u201cdoes not authorize \u2013 and has never authorized \u2013 the federal government to compel healthcare providers to perform abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas is calling for the HHS guidance to be considered unlawful and be set aside, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration has a hard time following the law, and now they are trying to have their appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians perform abortions,\u201d said Paxton in a press release.\u00a0\u201cI will ensure that President Biden will be forced to comply with the Supreme Court\u2019s important decision concerning abortion, and I will not allow him to undermine and distort existing laws to fit his administration\u2019s unlawful agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This administration has a hard time following the law&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"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-1555003","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\/1555003","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\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555003\/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=1555003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}