The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a case concerning emergency abortions in Texas. The justices let stand a lower court order barring hospitals from providing pregnancy terminations that would violate the state's strict abortion ban, despite arguments from the Biden administration that hospitals have an obligation to perform such procedures in emergencies under federal law.
The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas lawThe Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas , which has one of the country's strictest abortion bans.
The administration also cited a Texas Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to provide an abortion legally. The administration said it brings Texas in line with federal law and means the lower court ruling is not necessary.
Pregnancy terminations have long been part of medical treatment for patients with serious complications, as way to to prevent sepsis, organ failure and other major problems. But in Texas and other states with strict abortion bans, doctors and hospitals have said it is not clear whether those terminations could run afoul of abortion bans that carry the possibility of prison time.
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