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Conservative justices skeptical federal law requires emergency room abortions

Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism Wednesday that federal law can require hospitals to provide emergency abortion care in states with strict bans on the procedure, marking the ... read more

Supreme Court sharply at odds over emergency room abortion access in states' rights challenge

The contentious issue of abortion has returned to the Supreme Court, with the justices on Wednesday weighing a states rights challenge over hospital emergency room access to the procedure. read more

Supreme Court hears abortion clash over emergency room treatment for pregnant women

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether provisions of Idaho's near-total abortion ban unlawfully conflict with a federal law aimed at ensuring certain standards for emergency medical care ... read more

Conservatives Weave Anti-Abortion Fantasyland To Allow Emergency Room Abortion Bans

The right-wing justices crafted a kind of anti-abortion fantasyland Wednesday where not only do abortion ban exceptions work, but that the narrowest ones will amenably stretch to cover all the ... read more

Supreme Court hears case about emergency abortion care

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in another major abortion access case as it grapples with the aftermath of reversing Roe v. Wade. Follow here for live audio of the arguments, news updates, ... read more

Supreme Court divided over federal-state conflict on emergency abortion ban

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether a federal law requiring hospitals that participate in Medicare to provide “necessary stabilizing treatment” in an emergency overrides an Idaho ... read more

U.S. Supreme Court urged to protect emergency room abortion care ahead of arguments

Quality Journalism for Critical Times A doctor in Idaho recently saw a pregnant patient whose water broke at 15 weeks of pregnancy — something that normally happens at 38 weeks or later. It was about ... read more

GBI: Inmate shot and killed after pepper spraying officers in Washington County emergency room

It began with a fight between an inmate getting treatment after being stabbed and corrections officers on Tuesday. read more

Divided Supreme Court Hears Emergency-Room Abortion Case: DOJ vs. Idaho’s Pro-Life Law

Pro-abortion and pro-life supporters hold simultaneous rallies outside the Supreme Court on April 24, as the high court heard oral argument to decide if Idaho emergency rooms can provide abortions to ... read more

Emergency room wait times are worse than bad | READER COMMENTARY

Last year, when I was told by an urgent care doctor to go immediately to the emergency room, I waited 11 hours in the ER at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. And earlier ... read more

Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care

An Idaho law denying gravely ill pregnant women from having abortions necessary to protect their health is so odious even conservative Supreme Court justices seemed wary of them. read more