Joshua J. Friedman: Justice Jackson on SCOTUS dismissing the Idaho emergency abortion cases as improvidently granted: "Today's decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

There it is: SCOTUS DIGs (dismisses as improvidently granted) the EMTALA cases (on emergency abortion treatment in Idaho), as we learned from their inadvertent post yesterday www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Justice Jackson on SCOTUS dismissing the Idaho emergency abortion cases as improvidently granted: "Today's decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

This is the line that the Dems need to use in their campaign ads about abortion access, Jackson's comment here.

But will they? Just like will they hammer Trump for being a convicted felon?

I think Brown underscores what a tenuous thread EMTALA is. Doctors (and, importantly, clinic/practice/hospital shareholders) still know that anything they do can be litigated as crossing the imaginary boundary of necessary-for-health. I mean, yeah, it absolutely is a necessity, but also fuck.

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