{"pk":18384,"title":"Pregnancy Complications After Dobbs: The Role of EMTALA","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In June 2023, the Supreme Court declared that there was no longer a right to abortion under the federal constitution. This decision has allowed states to promulgate different restrictions on abortion, many of which implicate the practice of emergency medicine. An abortion is defined as a “medical intervention provided to individuals who need to end the medical condition of pregnancy” and includes care such as termination of an ectopic pregnancy and induction of labor for previable preterm premature rupture of membranes—interventions that emergency physicians either perform or rely on the assistance of consultants to perform. State bans on abortion must be evaluated against duties under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, a federal law that preempts state law. In this paper we examine the conflict between state and federal law as it applies to emergency abortion care and describe how emergency physicians can continue caring for patients.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"abortion, EMTALA, miscarriage, pregnancy complications, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Roe v. Wade"}],"section":"Legal Medicine","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j81n18f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kimberly","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chernoby","name_suffix":"","institution":"George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, D.C.","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Brian","middle_name":"","last_name":"Acunto","name_suffix":"","institution":"Atlanticare Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Galloway, New Jersey","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2023-06-27T11:06:48-07:00","date_accepted":"2023-06-27T11:06:48-07:00","date_published":"2024-01-04T10:51:54-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/18384/galley/9436/download/"}]}