{"id":1623001,"date":"2022-08-26T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623001"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:49:36","slug":"judge-blocks-biden-admins-emergency-abortion-rule-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-blocks-biden-admins-emergency-abortion-rule-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Blocks Biden Admin\u2019s Emergency Abortion Rule in Texas"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjudge-blocks-biden-admins-emergency-abortion-rule-in-texas%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=1623001&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 federal judge blocked the White House late Tuesday from enforcing guidance in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> to require hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state laws.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidance was unauthorized and went beyond the text of a related federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The judge declined to enjoin the guidance nationwide and instead only barred HHS from enforcing it and its interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix specifically rule that the HHS guidance, which cites the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), was not authorized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat guidance goes well beyond EMTALA\u2019s text, which protects both mothers and unborn children, is silent as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-abortion\">abortion<\/a>, and preempts state law only when the two directly conflict,\u201d he wrote in the ruling. \u201cSince the statute is silent on the question, the Guidance cannot answer how doctors should weigh risks to both a mother and her unborn child. Nor can it, in doing so, create a conflict with state law where one does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The HHS\u2019s interpretation of the rule allows for a doctor to initially determine that if the \u201cunborn child does not have an emergency medical condition, the doctor must then close his or her eyes to the unborn child\u2019s health for the remainder of the treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, it \u201cdirectly conflicts with the doctor\u2019s ongoing duty to provide care for both the mother and the unborn child when stabilizing a pregnant woman,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cBecause the doctor has a duty to both, EMTALA does not require the doctor to introduce an emergency medical condition to one in order to stabilize the other. Again, EMTALA does not say how to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge blocked the White House late Tuesday from enforcing guidance in Texas to require hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state laws. 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