Who Will Save Legal Access to Emergency Abortion?

I Glenn Cohen; Eli Y Adashi; Holly Fernandez Lynch

doi:10.1001/jama.2024.14605

Who Will Save Legal Access to Emergency Abortion?

JAMA. 2024 Jul 30. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.14605. Online ahead of print.

Authors

I Glenn Cohen^{1

2}, Eli Y Adashi³, Holly Fernandez Lynch⁴

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
² Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁴ Perelman School of Medicine and Carey Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

PMID: 39078645
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.14605

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses whether the federal EMTALA act requires that hospitals provide abortions when needed to protect the health of the pregnant person, even if prohibited by state law.