HOUSTON – Days after President Biden moved to secure access to abortion in states with bans, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging federal guidelines that said it would “force abortion.” in state hospitals.
The lawsuit represented an initial salvo in what is likely to be a prolonged legal tug-of-war between the Biden administration and states like Texas that have quickly taken steps to ban abortion in almost all cases as a result of the lawsuit. Supreme Court decision to revoke Roe v. Wade.
On Monday, the Biden administration told hospitals that even in states where abortion is illegal, federal law required doctors to perform an abortion on a pregnant woman who presented to the emergency department. if they believed it was “the necessary stabilizing treatment” to resolve it. an emergency medical condition.
Mr Paxton, in the lawsuit, said the president was trying to “try to use federal law to transform all the emergency rooms in the country into an unscheduled abortion clinic.”