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In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortions

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health. That’s following last week’s 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override the federal law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients. The Health and Human Services agency will also resume investigations into complaints against emergency rooms in Idaho, after the Supreme Court ruled that hospitals there must be allowed to perform emergency abortions for now, despite the state’s abortion ban.

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