On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, where they will consider the question of whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires emergency room physicians to commit abortions.
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, released the following comment regarding the oral arguments:
Medicine heals. Abortion kills. Abortion is not emergency medicine, and federal law does not require abortion in situations of a medical emergency. The Biden administration argues that abortion is needed to ensure mothers receive medical care for medical conditions and emergencies such as ectopic pregnancy, hemorrhage, and preeclampsia. Abortion is not needed in any of these cases. As the State of Idaho and its attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) point out in their brief before the Court:
“Treatments for ectopic and molar pregnancies are not abortions under Idaho law. And conditions like preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP Syndrome are ‘life-threatening situation[s]’ for which Idaho law allows ‘life-saving surgery’ or ‘early delivery.’”
The Biden Administration understands this reality. This case is not about ensuring mothers receive emergency medical care; it is about destroying Idaho’s laws protecting its youngest children from the violence and death of abortion. Contrary to the specious argument that abortion is medicine, abortion is in truth a violation of medicine’s foundational promise to heal. Forcing emergency room doctors to act as abortionists is illegal and unjust. I implore the Supreme Court to follow the law, and allow Idaho’s law to stand.
