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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Supreme Court Ruling Barring Emergency Abortion Care in Texas
For Immediate Release: Monday, October 7, 2024
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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Supreme Court Ruling Barring Emergency Abortion Care in Texas
Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court once again refused to protect emergency abortion care, handing down a ruling that allows Texas to continue blocking care it claims violates the state’s abortion ban. The Court’s actions will preserve a lower court’s order on the case. The Biden-Harris administration contends that through the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), federal law requires hospitals to provide abortion care in emergency situations, citing a similar Idaho case this year in which justices allowed emergency care while litigation continued.
Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement:
“The Supreme Court’s failure to act to protect the lives and health of pregnant people is shameful. When Trump says decisions about abortion should be left to the states, he’s saying that denying people potentially life-saving, emergency care should be allowed. It has never been so vital to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to put a stop to these barbaric bans and restore federal protections for abortion nationwide.”
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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.