Biden admin tells doctors to provide emergency abortions when necessary following Supreme Court ruling

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The Biden administration is telling doctors that pregnant women should have access to an emergency abortion when it is necessary to save her health, according to a letter being sent from the White House to medical professionals in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling.

In a letter from Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Director Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to doctors and hospital groups, the pair said hospitals have a legal duty to provide stabilizing treatment, which includes abortions, The Associated Press reported.

"No pregnant woman or her family should have to even begin to worry that she could be denied the treatment she needs to stabilize her emergency medical condition in the emergency room," the letter said.

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"And yet, we have heard story after story describing the experiences of pregnant women presenting to hospital emergency departments with emergency medical conditions and being turned away because medical providers were uncertain about what treatment they were permitted to provide," it continued.

The high court ruled last week that doctors in Idaho must be allowed to provide emergency abortions despite the state's near-total ban, in order to comply with a federal law that requires emergency rooms