on Wednesday to determine if the narrow exceptions in Idaho’s near-total abortion ban override federally mandated requirements for physicians under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act . EMTALA requires hospitals that participate in Medicare — the majority of hospitals in the country — to offer abortion care if it’s necessary to stabilize the health of a pregnant patient while they’re experiencing a medical emergency.
The decision will have far-reaching consequences and could give other states with narrow exceptions in abortion bans the go-ahead to adopt Idaho’s approach.
Dr. Jim Souza, chief physician executive of St. Luke’s Health System in Idaho, told reporters on a call last week that “Before August of 2022, we practiced medicine and acted as quickly as possible to preserve the mom’s health and future reproductive capacity,” Souza said, referring to when the trigger ban went into effect.
“We work so hard to be better for our patients, to know the right thing to do for them, how to make them feel more comfortable,” Cole added. “To be in this situation in which all of a sudden now we’re the villains in this? ... How did I work so hard to end up here?”Idaho in August 2022, and a U.S. District Court sided with the agency, granting a preliminary injunction on the ban on life-saving abortions.
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