John—
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Trump would rather let people bleed out in parking lots than enforce a federal law requiring emergency abortion care when it’s necessary to preserve a person’s health or save their life. This week, the Trump administration rescinded guidance that clarified hospitals must provide emergency care to all patients experiencing medical emergencies—including to pregnant patients in need of emergency abortion care—under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).

Despite the Trump administration’s chaotic actions, EMTALA is still the law, and hospitals are still required to provide abortion care in emergency situations, even in states with abortion bans. But Trump's latest move will embolden those who want to defy the federal law, and it will add to the fear, confusion, and dangerous delays patients and providers have faced since the fall of Roe v. Wade .
Let’s be clear: everyone deserves access to emergency health and lifesaving care, no matter what. And we’re ready to fight to protect emergency abortion care and all of our fundamental freedoms. [[link removed]]
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While the Trump administration claims that rescinding this guidance won’t prevent pregnant people from getting necessary treatment in medical emergencies, we’ve already seen cases amidst the post- Roe legal chaos of pregnant people being denied care who suffer serious infections, organ loss, and even death as a result. When hospitals refuse to provide emergency abortions to people who need them, people die. We can’t let this administration get away with this. Will you fight back with us? [[link removed]]

-Gretchen

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From: Gretchen Borchelt
Date: May 30, 2025 4:28 PM
Subject: BREAKING: We’re taking legal action to protect emergency abortion care.
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Dear John,

Let’s be clear: Everyone deserves access to health- and life-saving emergency care, no matter what. That’s why we’re taking legal action to protect emergency abortion care. Alongside the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Tennessee, and Democracy Forward, NWLC just filed a motion on behalf of Doctors for America to defend pregnant patients' right to receive health- and life-saving care and physicians’ right to provide that care under federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA).

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has ensured that patients can access health- and life-saving emergency abortion care. As a federal law, EMTALA protects emergency abortion care in states that now try to ban that care. If anti-abortion extremists succeed in stripping away EMTALA’s protections, doctors in ban states could be forced to violate their sworn duty: to save lives and prevent harm. Extremists are relentlessly trying to limit abortion, and they are putting pregnant people’s lives on the line. That’s why we’re fighting back. Make a donation now to power the fight for accessible abortion care and a better future for all. [[link removed]]

We, along with our co-counsel, are representing Doctors for America to intervene in the case Catholic Medical Association v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al. in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee. The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) filed this lawsuit to challenge EMTALA guidance issued in 2022 in the wake of the Supreme Court’s erroneous decision overturning Roe v. Wade . We have intervened to ensure that the right to emergency abortion care under EMTALA is defended.

We’re taking action now so emergency abortion care doesn’t get taken away by extremists. CMA is not only asking that its member doctors be able to refuse to provide emergency abortion care—its lawsuit also puts forward an argument that, if accepted, could potentially prohibit all hospitals nationwide from providing certain types of emergency abortion care. In a recent filing, the Trump Department of Justice said that it was looking at the possibility of settling the case, rather than defending EMTALA. We need you with us to fight back. [[link removed]]

We, along with the ACLU, the ACLU of Tennessee, and Democracy Forward, are proud to be representing Doctors for America. No matter what happens, we will not stop fighting until everyone has access to care, regardless of who they are or where they live. Donate now to fight back against extremist abortion bans and to protect all of our fundamental freedoms. [[link removed]

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In solidarity,
Gretchen Borchelt
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Vice President for Reproductive Rights & Health
National Women's Law Center
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