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: Van Orden’s aggressive and dangerous anti-abortion agenda got us to this point.
Derrick Van Orden has fought against 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.
DCCC Spokesperson Mallory Payne:
“Because of Derrick Van Orden’s agenda, reproductive freedom is under threat. He has been at the center of the far-right crusade to ban abortion nationwide. 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.”
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