Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a law that requires doctors to provide care to stabilize patients in life-threatening circumstances. The court is considering whether Idaho’s abortion ban overrules EMTALA, opening doctors to criminal charges if they perform an emergency abortion to protect the health and life of the woman.
Let’s be clear: Miller-Meeks’ aggressive and dangerous anti-abortion agenda got us to this point.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks has fought any attempt to protect access to critical reproductive care, including blocking consideration of the Women’s Health Protection Act — legislation that would have codified Roe and guaranteed the very same protections now under threat in today’s Supreme Court arguments.
Miller-Meeks even co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions for rape, incest, or the woman’s life that also threatens access to birth control and fertility treatments. And in the Iowa state legislature, Miller-Meeks voted for a constitutional amendment that would eliminate the right to an abortion in Iowa.
DCCC Spokesperson Mallory Payne:
“Because of Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ agenda, reproductive freedom is under threat. Today’s case before the Supreme Court is a tragic reminder of the relentless lengths anti-freedom extremists will go to ban abortion, even going so far as to deny women life-saving medical care. Despite efforts to mislead Iowans on her record, Miller-Meeks has led the far-right crusade to ban abortion nationwide.”
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