What is EMTALA, the federal law at the center of abortion fight?

(NewsNation) — Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a legal conflict over state abortion bans and protections granted by the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.

The conflict arose out of Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion, which took effect after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Roe, decided in the 1970s, granted women a constitutional right to an abortion and has steadily been chipped away at in the proceeding decades.

Its total reversal led to a slew of conservative states enacting abortion bans, including Idaho...
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