Can we sue Texas for the deaths of the women who die because they would rather have the mother die - and their child survive?

[legalboxers]

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/14/texas-biden-emergency-abortion/
Texas sues after Biden administration issues guidance saying doctors can perform abortions in emergencies

Texas is suing the Biden administration over guidance released Monday telling the nation’s doctors they’re protected by federal law to terminate a pregnancy as part of emergency treatment — and threatening to defund hospitals that don’t perform these procedures.

The Biden administration’s guidance states that federal law requires doctors to perform abortions for pregnant people in emergency rooms when it is “the stabilizing treatment necessary” to resolve a medical emergency, including treatments for ectopic pregnancy, hypertension and preeclampsia.

On Wednesday, the Biden administration also warned retail pharmacies that they must fill prescriptions for pills that can induce abortion or risk violating federal civil rights law.

These two recent actions pit the federal executive branch against state governments after the U. S. Supreme Court undid a nearly half-century-old precedent that had affirmed access to abortion as a constitutional right.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office filed the suit challenging the guidance in federal court on Thursday, saying the Biden administration’s guidance violates the state’s “sovereign interest in the power to create and enforce a legal code.”

Texas is one of several states with laws banning abortion already in effect or trigger laws that will soon ban the medical procedure. Texas will soon ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization with narrow exceptions only to save the life of a pregnant patient or prevent “substantial impairment of major bodily function.”

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[whirled_up_girl]

The texas attorney general's lawsuit really confuses me. I work as a hosptial registered nurse (not in Texas) and the EMTALA act https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA has been a federal law since 1986. I also read the read the statememt that was to reinforce the EMTALA act in cases where an abortion would be necessary emergency treatment https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-22-22-hospitals.pdf and there is nothing new to the law, it's clarifying the rules of the law that has been codified since 1986.

It doesn't include anything about elective abortions, it never has, I don't know what his goal is with his lawsuit unless it is to eliminate exceptions to save the mother's life.

As far as your question, I would imagine if a women died as a result of this law not being followed their could be a lawsuit but probably not if the federal law somehow were to be repealed or invalidated, then I don't maybe there is a law expert on here that would know the answer to that. I moslty know about laws that are specific to healthcare.

[UnknownGagsUser]

With abortion illegal everything are all weird and confusing.


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[loveslongnails]

According to Beto O'Rourke, the majority of the Texans don't want these restrictions and it's the old conservatives in power who are pushing them through. He says the way to beat it is to vote them out. I hope he's correct.

I think we should just throw Texas out of the USA if they keep this shit up.

What good would suing them do? If it gets all the way to the Supreme Court, you'll just lose anyway.

Sooner or later, There Will Be Blood.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

President Biden only wants to protect the mother from dying the child is not going to make it so now Texas wants to sue the Biden Administration

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)