The Trump administration has rescinded a Biden-era policy that protected emergency room abortions, stripping away a critical legal shield for doctors and pregnant women who live in states that ban the procedure.

Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Many states, including Arizona, responded by passing restrictive laws or outright bans. While Arizonans last year voted to enshrine a fundamental right to abortion in the state Constitution, as many as 13 other states currently outlaw abortion in all cases.

Shortly after the fall of Roe v. Wade, efforts to restore the right stalled in Congress, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at former President Joe Biden’s direction, circumvented

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