(The Center Square) — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, along with 21 other Democratic attorneys general, is reminding hospitals they’re required to provide emergency abortion care.
The attorneys general sent the letter Tuesday, which coincided with the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. With the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the issue of abortion was returned to the states.
Mayes and the other Democrats told America’s largest hospital association that it needed to ensure hospitals were complying with the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
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This law, according to the attorneys general, requires hospitals to “provide critical and necessary health care in emergency medical situations,” including abortion care to women to prevent harm to the mother’s health.
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