The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is rescinding a Biden administration-era policy that told health providers who perform emergency abortions that they’re protected under federal law, even in states with abortion restrictions.
The July 2022 directive by former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, which followed shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision ending the federal right to abortions, stated that if a physician believes a pregnant woman is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act and an abortion is the stabilizing treatment, the physician must abort the baby, regardless of the state law.
CMS, whose administrator is Dr. Mehmet Oz, said in a news release Tuesday that Becerra’s guidelines “do not reflect the policy of this administration.”
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