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The Quickie: Fifth Circuit Jeopardizes Abortion Access For People With Life-Threatening Pregnancies

For Immediate Release: Jan. 3, 2024


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In today’s Quickie: Fifth Circuit jeopardizes abortion access for people with life-threatening pregnancies.

FIFTH CIRCUIT JEOPARDIZES ABORTION ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH LIFE-THREATENING PREGNANCIES: Yesterday, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Biden administration’s 2022 guidance, which sought to clarify that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) preempts state abortion bans when needed for emergency care. The guidance stated that if a pregnant patient has a medical emergency and an abortion is the necessary stabilizing treatment for that patient, the physician must provide an abortion regardless of state abortion bans or restrictions. 

As PPFA president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson explained, “It has never been clearer that we should take anti-abortion lawmakers and their allies at their word: they want to ban abortion entirely — even in situations where abortion is life-saving or stabilizing care. While they continue their quest for power and control over people’s bodies, Planned Parenthood will fight back every step of the way. Patients and doctors should be making these decisions — not agenda-driven politicians with no medical expertise.”  

Read more from the Washington Post here.

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