Trump Walks Back Key Health Policies

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“EMTALA is still the law of the land. As a doctor, I have a moral and ethical obligation to provide emergency care to those in need, including EMTALA’s mandate to provide abortion care when it is necessary and stabilizing treatment. This action does not change that.”
President & CEO Dr. Jamila Perritt

The Trump administration’s decision in early June to rescind guidance to hospitals concerning their obligation to perform emergency abortions is one of several health-related policies Trump has scrapped — or signaled he might — since taking office.

On June 3, the administration announced that it would rescind the federal guidanceopens in a new tab or window concerning the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) that CMS had issued in July 2022opens in a new tab or window under the Biden administration to reinforce that complications of pregnancy loss, ectopic pregnancies, and similar concerns must be treated as emergency medical conditions.