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Trump’s DOJ Doesn’t Care If Pregnant People Die
Within the first week of his term, Trump signed an executive order that strongly signaled his administration would not enforce EMTALA. In January, Alison Tanner, an attorney at the National Women’s Law Center who represents a woman with a pending EMTALA lawsuit, told Jezebel that whatever action Trump takes, EMTALA still stands: “It has no impact on any women’s lawsuits,” Tanner said. “No administrative actions they ever take will change the rights that individuals have under the language of EMTALA, nor the duties that hospitals have under EMTALA.”
