{"id":1053113,"date":"2025-06-05T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053113"},"modified":"2025-06-05T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:44:51","slug":"trump-administration-ends-emergency-health-care-requirement-for-pregnant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-administration-ends-emergency-health-care-requirement-for-pregnant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Ends Emergency Health Care Requirement for Pregnant Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to Donald Trump ending guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency reproductive health care to pregnant women, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump \u2014 the man who \u2018proudly\u2019 takes credit for overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> \u2014 has now overturned protections that guarantee emergency care for pregnant women. While women suffer under his draconian state abortion bans, Trump is making clear that he\u2019d rather let them die on the table than get lifesaving care. This is Project 2025 \u2014 and Trump won\u2019t stop until he\u2019s put even more lives at risk with a national abortion ban.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Trump administration overturned the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s efforts to ensure pregnant women can access emergency medical care in the face of extreme abortion bans.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2025\/06\/04\/emtala-emergency-abortion-guidance\/\">Washington Post<\/a>: <strong>\u201cThe Trump administration has rescinded Biden-era guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions when necessary to stabilize a patient\u2019s health \u2014 even in states that ban the procedure. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Biden administration had issued the guidance in July 2022, weeks after the Supreme Court overturned <\/strong><strong><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong><strong>, ending the national right to abortion, to clarify that a federal law guaranteeing emergency care for patients in peril took precedence over state abortion bans.<\/strong> It later sued Idaho in federal court to enforce penalties against hospitals that disregarded the federal policy to adhere to the state\u2019s strict abortion ban.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Under his Project 2025 agenda, Trump is attacking women\u2019s reproductive rights and trying to ban abortion nationwide while invading the privacy of millions of American women.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/190506\/donald-trump-fetal-personhood-executive-order?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&amp;utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">The New Republic<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy describing a fetus as a person from conception, <strong>Trump has legitimized fetal personhood.<\/strong> \u2026 The legal language employed by fetal personhood also <strong>effectively categorizes any person receiving an abortion at any stage as a murderer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-administration-removes-reproductive-rights-website\/\">Daily Beast<\/a>:<strong> \u201cTrump Administration Removes Reproductive Rights Website\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/trump-transition\/trump-abortion-administration-cabinet\">NOTUS<\/a>:<strong> <\/strong>\u201cAnti-abortion advocates say having allies in the cabinet will set the tone for abortion policies in the administration. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump\u2019s agency picks could make changes that would have nationwide implications on abortion access.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/04\/trump-emergency-abortions-00211399\">Politico<\/a>:<strong> \u201cTrump admin moves to drop fight over emergency abortions, reversing Biden admin stance\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01\/\">Reuters<\/a>:<strong> \u201cTrump administration to freeze family-planning funds for Planned Parenthood\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REMINDER: Trump \u201cproudly\u201d overturned <\/strong><strong><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong><strong> and claimed credit for extreme abortion bans across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1777313236288712970\">Trump<\/a>:<strong> \u201cI was proudly the person responsible for the ending of \u2026 <\/strong><strong><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong><strong>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1745277154236260693\">Trump<\/a>: \u201cFor 54 years they were trying to get <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>terminated, and I did it, and I\u2019m proud to have done it. \u2026 Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-claims-credit-all-abortion-bans-1234736979\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-vance-abortion-surveil-pregnant-women-1235072063\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>:<strong> \u201cTrump and Vance Have Backed States That Want to Surveil Pregnant Women\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Donald Trump ending guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency reproductive health care to pregnant women, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cDonald Trump \u2014 the man who \u2018proudly\u2019 takes credit for overturning Roe v. Wade \u2014 has now overturned protections that guarantee emergency care for pregnant women. 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