The Supreme Court May Shut Down Emergency Abortion Care

Just two years ago, the Supreme Court did the unthinkable: the conservative justices stripped women, nonbinary people, and trans people of their nationwide right to abortion care by overturning Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs decision reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, and sent shockwaves through the country — further eviscerating any lingering belief that the Trump-packed Supreme Court would respect individual rights and rule of law above radical right-wing ideology.

The Supreme Court has since made clear that overturning Roe was not the end game: it’s the launchpad for further attacks on abortion access and essential healthcare in all 50 states. And this term, the radical conservative justices seem ready to shut down emergency, stabilizing abortion care in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States — consolidated cases that could radically rewrite the federal Emergency Medical Treatment And Labor Act (EMTALA).