{"id":1923439,"date":"2023-05-03T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hospitals-broke-the-law-by-not-carrying-out-emergency-abortion-feds-say\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:58:12","slug":"hospitals-broke-the-law-by-not-carrying-out-emergency-abortion-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hospitals-broke-the-law-by-not-carrying-out-emergency-abortion-feds-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals violated law by not performing emergency abortion, according to feds."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhospitals-broke-the-law-by-not-carrying-out-emergency-abortion-feds-say%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=1923439&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--><h2>Hospitals Violate Law Requiring Emergency Medical Care<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0503\/4c36b31a-e636-4ded-a33c-1727b57d3d0d\/audio.mp3?length=3920589&#038;duration=327\"><\/div>\n<p>Two hospitals have been accused of violating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTLA), which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hospitals-broke-the-law-by-not-carrying-out-emergency-abortion-feds-say\/\" title=\"Hospitals violated law by not performing emergency abortion, according to feds.\">requires emergency medical care<\/a> for facilities paid by Medicare. The Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, and the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas failed to provide necessary stabilizing care to a woman, according to officials with the Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services (CMS).<\/p>\n<h3>Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Pregnancy Complications<\/h3>\n<p>The woman, identified as Mylissa Farmer, was 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nycs-top-doc-apologizes-for-describing-mothers-as-birthing-people\/\" title=\"NYC\u2019s Top Doc Apologizes for Describing Mothers as \u201cBirthing People\u201d\">life-threatening complications<\/a> when she went to the hospitals. Her lawyers claim that doctors should have carried out an emergency abortion after her water broke and it was determined her pregnancy was no longer viable. However, CMS investigators found that the hospitals discharged Farmer \u201cwith an un-stabilized emergency medical condition,\u201d which could have resulted in serious injury, harm, impairment, or death.<\/p>\n<h3>EMTLA Requires Emergency Services Despite State Laws<\/h3>\n<p>U.S. authorities say that EMTLA requires hospitals to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metro-detroit-area-flooded-after-intense-storms-drop-heavy-rain\/\" title=\"Metro Detroit area flooded after intense storms drop heavy rain\">provide emergency services<\/a> even if the services might be illegal under state laws that have come into effect, or were approved, in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade. However, a U.S. judge in 2022 prohibited hospitals from following that guidance in contravention of Texas law, saying it \u201cgoes well beyond EMTALA\u2019s text, which protects both mothers and unborn children.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Health Secretary Becerra Vows to Enforce the Law<\/h3>\n<p>Health Secretary Xavier Becerra has warned hospitals that receive Medicare funds that they must comply with EMTLA or face enforcement action. \u201cWe will do everything we can to protect their lives and health, and to investigate and enforce the law to the fullest extent of our legal authority, in accordance with orders from the courts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>State Laws on Abortion<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Missouri law bans many abortions, though it contains exceptions for emergencies.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas law allows abortions up to 22 weeks. Both states require a waiting period and counseling prior to an abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5238579\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/03\/id5238579-kansas-hospital-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/05\/03\/id5238579-kansas-hospital-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Buildings at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., on March 9, 2020.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., on March 9, 2020. (Charlie Riedel\/AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hospitals broke a law requiring emergency medical care for facilities that are paid by Medicare, federal officials say. The Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, and the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas violated\u00a0the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTLA) when they failed to \u201coffer necessary stabilizing care\u201d to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1923440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4310,4469,6617,6126,6547,7870,10458],"class_list":["post-1923439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-abortion","tag-emergency","tag-feds","tag-hospitals","tag-law","tag-performing","tag-violated"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923439","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}