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Federal health agency says emergency abortion care guidance doesn’t reflect administration policy

Abortion-rights advocacy organizations said the move sends a clear message that the administration is siding with anti-abortion foes. “Stripping away federal guidance affirming what the law requires will put lives at risk,” said Fatima Goss...

Trump Order to Hospitals on Emergency Abortions ‘Means Women Will Die,’ Warn Advocates

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, emphasized that the CMS action "doesn't change hospitals' legal obligations, but it does add to the fear, confusion, and dangerous delays patients and providers have...

The ‘Soft Eugenics’ Presidency

But people are still being sterilized against their will today—namely, disabled people under guardianship, and people in prisons or jails. “The story that we're told about forced sterilization is that it's something that was confined to this...

‘One-Two Punch’: Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety ‘Review’—All in One Day

“To be clear: This action doesn’t change hospitals’ legal obligations, but it does add to the fear, confusion and dangerous delays patients and providers have faced since the fall of Roe v. Wade,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president...

CMS rescinds guidance, letter on hospitals’ obligation to provide emergency abortions

That statement, which was joined by leaders of the National Women’s Law Center and Democracy Forward, said pulling the guidance does not change providers’ legal obligation and will sow confusion that endangers pregnant patients. “Stripping...

HHS Rescinds Biden-Era Emergency Abortion Policy for Hospitals

Health advocates like Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, say those fears have now materialized. She warned in a statement that the CMS’s move to rescind the guidance “will...