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 ...

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which required emergency rooms to provide emergency health care to anyone, regardless of immigration ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled Biden-era guidance telling hospital emergency departments to provide abortion services as stabilizing care regardless of state law. The ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has rescinded July 2022 guidance that allowed physicians to perform emergency abortions.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 ...