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Biden is putting abortion politics ahead of health care once again

Vulnerable patients in need of essential medical care deserve treatments that improve their health, but today such care is becoming a rare luxury. The Biden administration has imposed radical cultural and political policies on hospitals, medical professionals, and patients that impede access to comprehensive health care.

Soon, the White House remove Conscience protection for doctors who oppose harmful procedures such as abortion. The purpose is to empower them to administer such “treatments” against their best medical judgment and beliefs. This administration’s move is just one of many egregious violations that perpetuate medical misinformation and jeopardize genuine patient care.

Immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned, the administration issued Texas and Idaho have challenged federal guidance aimed at forcing emergency room doctors to perform abortions as “emergency care.”In moving this power, Biden’s team was relying on “About the perverse and questionable oversimplification of the Emergency Medical Care and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA).”Turn hospitals and emergency rooms into walk-in abortion clinics.This once again shows that the White House is prioritizing unrestricted abortion over the health of patients.

This insensitive guidance could potentially cost many innocent lives, while also creating a wedge between emergency patients and the care they need. Giving women the false impression that abortion is life-saving care risks tempting them to seek “treatment” that can lead to lifelong psychological and physical harm. However, doctors understand that induced abortion is: not medically necessary To save my mother’s life. And despite the irresponsible fear-mongering campaign by the administration and its allies, the CDC is already doing the right thing. exclude From the definition of abortion to the treatment of several emergency complications such as ectopic pregnancy and early pregnancy failure. Nevertheless, the administration attempts to portray abortion as a medical necessity.

When a woman faces an emergency complication and presents to a life-affirming emergency room, she receives timely and excellent medical care. This care is what EMTALA has always needed and what expectant mothers have wanted for many years. benefited What they continue to receive from every state and facility across the country, including those with laws that protect the lives of prenatal children. But these women are concerned that the real care they need in their states is being undermined by other measures, such as the new EMTALA guidance, driven by politics rather than empathy or medical wisdom. You may notice it right away.

This year, the Biden team is pushing yet another federal rule that would prevent the nation’s 3,000 local pregnancy resource centers from receiving $16.5 million in federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds. Withholding TANF funds is completely at odds with the life-affirming mission of these centers. a lot Planned Parenthood 14-1.

Pregnancy centers in the following states missouri and pennsylvania Those who currently benefit from TANF funds are unable to provide free ultrasounds, medical exams, housing, clothing, etc. in conjunction with the program, despite the fact that TANF exists for people. It disappears. the purpose “Promoting vocational training and marriage…and encouraging two-parent families.” These goals align with these centers’ long-standing mission to support mothers financially, emotionally, and physically.

Physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals who carefully attend to patients in medical pregnancy centers and emergency rooms can point to countless stories of women who have benefited from life-affirming care. For example, Jean Davis was empowered by the staff at one such center to not only give birth to her son, but also to escape a life of unspeakable abuse, human trafficking, and drug addiction. She now works full-time counseling women from similar backgrounds to her own.

Patients deserve excellent, life-saving and life-affirming care at every stage and stage of life. Fathers, mothers, grandparents and children deserve no less. For this very reason, our organization is committed to continuing this type of care, even in the face of politically motivated hostility.

The Biden administration must stop prioritizing partisan politics over patient lives. If we all work together, we can protect quality health care for our loved ones. First, stand up to the Biden administration’s crusade for life-affirming health care.

Christina Francis is American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.Chris Faddis is the president. solidarity health share.

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