digs into a pending Supreme Court case brought by the Justice Department against Idaho on behalf of patients who need care at hospital emergency rooms due to pregnancy complications, arguing that the state’s law banning abortion at all stages of pregnancy violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA.
Even so, feminists are not without recourse. In a huge win for abortion rights, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a ban on Medicaid funding for the procedure discriminates against women in violation of the state’s Equal Rights Amendment. “It’s really beautiful,” Susan J. Frietsche of the Women’s Law Project told our reporter.
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