The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about a federal law that may be obscure to most people but is a vivid reality to me — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). The 1986 law was designed to save patients, especially laboring mothers and their unborn babies, from being turned away from the emergency rooms of private hospitals because they were uninsured or indigent. It was bipartisan and pro-life in the broadest sense of the term.
Today, the Biden administration is seeking to use EMTALA to override pro-life laws in some 20 states and mandate abortion in emergency rooms across the country. In fact, nothing in the text of EMTALA requires any particular treatment except life-saving care for both mothers and their children.
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