Texas files lawsuit against women’s life-saving abortions

The Attorney General of Texas accused the President of the United States of violating the Supreme Court’s recent ruling.

Texas filed a complaint Thursday against Joe Biden’s administration’s order to authorize emergency doctors to perform abortions if a pregnant woman’s life is in danger, even though local laws prohibit abortions. The complaint, filed by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, accused the Democratic president of “violating” a June 24 Supreme Court ruling that gave each state the freedom to ban abortions on its soil.

According to the document, “his government is trying to use federal legislation to turn every emergency department in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic”. The White House was quick to criticize the move by a “radical and radical electorate Republican.”

“It is unthinkable that a public official would take legal action to prevent women from receiving life-saving emergency care protected by U.S. law,” agency spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Joe Biden.

The Texas complaint follows a letter Monday from Health Secretary Xavier Becerra to emergency physicians who train at federally funded hospitals. Federal law “protects your medical judgment and the steps you take to stabilize your pregnant patients, regardless of the state in which you practice,” he wrote.

A very political complaint

If a doctor thinks an abortion is necessary to address a medical emergency, “he should do it,” the minister says. He still asserts that federal law “preempts” state laws if it bans abortion without exception for the life or health of the pregnant woman.

Ken Paxton criticized Joe Biden’s government for “trying to get its bureaucracy to force hospitals and emergency doctors to perform abortions,” whose government now bans all abortions. However, its laws make an exception to save the lives of pregnant women and the complaint filed on Thursday seems more political than anything else.

Half of the states should ban abortion

It’s part of a larger legal limbo since the Supreme Court ruled on abortion rights that have existed in the United States for nearly half a century.

His decision has actually made it possible to implement many laws that have been dormant for years, including century-old laws, but whose provisions may be contradictory.

So far, more than a dozen states in the conservative South and Center have banned abortions, and some limit abortions to the first six weeks of pregnancy. Ultimately, half of them should ban abortions on their soil.