I’m surprised no one else has written about this story. I caught just a brief tidbit of it on Morning Joe this morning. Mika was just as appalled as I am.
Late yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that emergency departments in Texas do not have to provide life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
The Texas Tribune has a summary here.
I’m sure the Biden Administration will appeal the ruling to SCOTUS for all the good that will do. In the meantime, this ruling means that more women who can’t afford or who are too medically unstable to leave the state because of life-threatening pregnancy complications will suffer or die.
I’m going to keep this short because I’ve run out of all of my nice words to say about it in this diary.