Federal judge sides with Texas, blocks HHS guidance on emergency abortions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Judge James Wesley Hendrix wrote the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidance from July "goes well beyond" the text of the federal law, which he wrote "protects both mothers and unborn children, is silent as to abortion, and preempts state law only when the two directly conflict."
46% :Hendrix wrote that federal guidance on EMTALA said "abortion may be required for emergency medical conditions that are likely to become emergent," while Texas state abortion law "requires the condition to be present."
41% : "It is obvious that abortion does not preserve the life or health of an unborn child."
39% : "Texas suitTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Lubbock Division a few days later arguing EMTALA doesn't guarantee access to abortion.
36% : The U.S. Department of Justice filed a separate lawsuit against Idaho earlier this month arguing one of its state laws on abortion, set to take effect Thursday, violated EMTALA.
28% : The Idaho lawsuit is part of the Biden administration's efforts to keep abortion legal in some circumstances after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

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