Texas, Thursday, filed a complaint against a directive from the Joe Biden government authorizing emergency physicians to perform abortions when there is a risk to a pregnant woman’s life, even if local laws prohibit abortions.
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The complaint, filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, accuses the Democratic president of “mocking” the Supreme Court’s June 24 ruling, which gave each state the freedom to ban abortions on its territory.
According to that document, his government is “attempting to use federal law to convert every emergency department in the country into an open abortion clinic.”
The actions of the “radical and radical elected Republicans” were quickly criticized by the White House.
“It is unreasonable for a public official to take legal action to prevent women from receiving life-saving emergency care, a right protected by US law,” agency spokeswoman Karen Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Joe Biden.
The Texas complaint follows a letter Monday from Health Secretary Xavier Becerra to emergency physicians working at federally funded hospitals.
He wrote to them that federal law “protects your clinical judgment and actions you take to stabilize your pregnant patients, regardless of any restrictions in the state in which you practice.”
The minister adds that if a doctor deems an abortion necessary to resolve a medical emergency, he “must perform it.” Federal law “preempts” state laws if they prohibit abortions without exception for the life or health of a pregnant woman, it still asserts.
She criticized Joe Biden’s government for “persuading its own staff to compel hospitals and emergency physicians to perform abortions,” as did Ken Paxton, whose state now bans all abortions.
However, its laws make an exception to save the lives of pregnant women, and Thursday’s complaint appears to be above all political.
It’s part of a major legal ambiguity since the Supreme Court dismantled the right to abortion, which has been in force for nearly half a century in the United States.
His decision actually enabled the activation of many laws that had lain dormant for years, including those that are a century old, but whose provisions can be contradictory.
Currently, a dozen states, in the South and the conservative center, ban abortions, and a handful restrict them to the first six weeks of pregnancy. Ultimately, half of them should ban abortions on their soil.
