A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a longstanding national emergency-care law, dealing a blow to the White House’s strategy to ensure access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022.
There are enough loopholes in that law to drive a truck through. They arise out of the basic fact that obviously not every hospital can be a stroke or bypass center. Lack of EMTALA care for complex psychatric cases is a fact of life already.