The historical fact spread online in October 2025 as Republicans claimed Democrats shut down the government over health care ...

Here & Now's Deborah Becker speaks with Dr. Nisha Verma about a federal law that supersedes state abortion bans called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Verma is a board-certified and ...

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), codified in section 1867 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd), was enacted in 1986 to ensure that no individual who presents at an ...

In 2022, the Biden administration issued the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which it was necessary to prevent organ loss. On ...

WASHINGTON — Today, the Trump administration rescinded guidance that reaffirmed hospitals’ obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide health-saving and ...

W hite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stirred controversy last week when she criticized “illegal immigrants” that she claimed received “taxpayer-funded health care benefits” for emergency ...

The Trump administration has rescinded July 2022 guidance that allowed physicians to perform emergency abortions. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and ...

NATIONWIDE — HOSPITALS MUST CONTINUE TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY ABORTION CARE, says a coalition of 21 attorneys general led by NY Attorney General Letitia James. They sent a letter to the American Hospital ...

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would require emergency departments, including labor and delivery departments, to care for patients regardless of their ability to pay and other ...

Strategies for hospitals and ED clinicians to reduce risks under EMTALA and state abortion laws Since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs ...