Doctors facing mounting legal and professional pressure to perform abortions post-Dobbs reassert that there are no necessary abortions in medicine. The term “emergency abortion” is a scare tactic.
Soon after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services issued letters to doctors citing the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, requiring that abortions must be provided as “emergency care.”
The Biden administration reiterated that message in early July, in a letter sent to physician and hospital associations, compelling emergency room (ER) doctors to perform abortions to “stabilize” a woman’s “emergency medical condition.”
Public Ignorance, Political Gain
Recently the Association for American Physicians and Surgeons filed a suit after multiple doctors were targeted by credentialing boards and the U.S. government for their anti-abortion stance post-Dobbs. Public ignorance and confusion over a “necessary” abortion continues to permeate political language and Biden’s rule is yet another coercive attempt to install national abortion “must-haves.”
An anonymous Food and Drug Administration committee determines “arbitrary safety standards” and what defines “emergency use” and “necessity,” said John Seeds, former department chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and can then utilize those standards to hide and mislead the public on the point of abortion.
Seeds testified in favor of a bill in Virginia that would change Health Department standards for abortionists, requiring providers to report any significant complication of an abortion.
“We should want to know if complications are clustering, and where,” Seeds told me. “I said, ‘How
