"Justice Alito's dissenting opinion requires a brief response. His primary argument is that although EMTALA generally obligates hospitals to provide emergency medical care, it never demands that they offer an abortion — no matter how much that procedure is needed to prevent grave physical harm, or even death," Kagan wrote.
"That view has no basis in the statute," she said. "EMTALA unambiguously requires that a Medicare-funded hospital provide whatever medical treatment is necessary to stabilize a health emergency — and an abortion, in rare situations, is such a treatment."…
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