- Term
- 2023-2024
Moyle v. U.S
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires hospitals receiving Medicare funding to offer “necessary stabilizing treatment” to protect the health of pregnant people in emergencies, regardless of the state they live in. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the constitutional right to abortion, Idaho’s “Defense of Life” Act makes it a crime to provide an abortion except in a handful of narrow circumstances, such as to save the life — but not the health — of the woman, putting countless lives in preventable danger. The Supreme Court considered whether to severely gut EMTALA, permit other red states to ban or severely restrict medically-necessary abortions, and force more pregnant people to wait to receive emergency care until their conditions escalate in severity to the point where their lives are at risk.
On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court dismissed the case as improvidently granted.
