Weekly News Wire | July 9, 2025
CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance On Emergency Abortions
On June 3, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) withdrew its 2022 guidance that reinforced hospitals’ obligations to provide emergency abortion care to women under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA). In this context, emergency abortion care is defined as pregnancy termination to stabilize the health of a pregnant person in a medical crisis. The 2022 guidance noted that emergency medical conditions involving pregnant women can include, but are not limited to, ectopic pregnancy, complications of pregnancy loss, or preeclampsia with severe features.;;
On June 13, 2025, Department of Health and Human Services . . .
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