The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is rescinding a Biden-era guidance requiring emergency rooms across the country to provide abortion services to people facing health emergencies relating to pregnancy complications.

That guidance, issued in 2022 shortly after the Supreme Court upended federal abortion protections established in Roe v. Wade , was based on a federal law that applies to U.S. hospitals with ERs that rely on Medicare funds . The law, entitled the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), requires those hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to patients in all emergency situations.

While many believe EMTALA inherently applies to abortion care, the Biden administration’s guidance attempted to make that clearer, stating that, where a

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