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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 away federal guidance affirming what the law requires will put lives at risk,” Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, said in the statement. “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.”
