Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Joe Biden for Threatening Hospitals That Don’t Abort Babies

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a new Biden administration action that threatens hospitals with loss of Medicaid funds if their emergency rooms refuse to abort unborn babies.

The lawsuit comes in response to a new guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday – one of the Biden administration’s many actions to expand abortions post-Roe v. Wade. The guidance invokes the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act to require hospitals to perform abortions for “emergency medical conditions,” a broad term that may include situations where it is not necessary to abort the unborn baby.

“By this move, the Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement.

Texas and a dozen other states protect unborn babies by banning abortions in all or almost all cases. However, every state law allows exceptions for the rare cases when a mother’s life is at risk…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)