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Maryland AG joins coalition opposing laws that restrict emergency abortion care – Maryland Matters
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Maryland Legal professional Basic Brian E. Frosh joined a coalition of 21 attorneys common in submitting a short in federal court docket on Tuesday, difficult Texas’ assertion that states shouldn’t need to adjust to a federal legislation that protects docs who finish a being pregnant to save lots of the affected person’s life.
The transient argues the choose within the case shouldn’t grant Texas’ request for preliminary injunctive reduction that may cease the federal authorities from implementing the legislation, or a pre-judgment ruling, on the Emergency Medical Therapy and Labor Act.
“For many years, the federal authorities and courts all through the nation have interpreted EMTALA to require therapy for emergency situations referring to being pregnant that don’t contain energetic labor and have concluded that stabilizing therapy might embrace emergency abortion care when essential to deal with an emergency situation,” the attorneys common wrote within the 28-page transient.
The attorneys common additionally wrote that “emergency abortion care is important to keep away from critical dangerous outcomes (together with loss of life) in quite a few conditions similar to when a affected person presents with an ectopic being pregnant, extreme preeclampsia, issues from abortion together with self-induced abortion, and different medical situations for which speedy medical consideration is required.”
Along with Maryland and the District of Columbia, different states that signed on to the transient, filed within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of Texas, have been: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington.
The identical coalition of attorneys common filed a second transient Tuesday in United States of America v. Idaho, supporting the federal authorities’s movement for a preliminary injunction to cease enforcement of Idaho’s close to complete ban on abortion.
In 2020, Idaho handed a “set off” legislation which criminalizes all abortions and imposes jail time on anybody who performs, assists, or makes an attempt to carry out an abortion, even within the context of emergency care. The legislation outlines affirmative defenses for rape, incest and to save lots of the affected person’s life, which permits an individual prosecuted for performing an abortion process to make use of these causes as a protection.
“Texas’s and Idaho’s makes an attempt to take away abortion care from emergency well being providers violate federal legislation and can put the well being and security of 1000’s of girls in danger,” Frosh mentioned in an announcement. “We assist the federal authorities’s efforts to make sure that emergency healthcare, together with abortion, stays accessible girls all through our nation.”
Texas problem
The present debate between Texas and anti-abortion organizations, and the federal authorities started in July when U.S. Well being and Human Companies Secretary Xavier Becerra launched a letter reasserting that underneath EMTALA “regardless of the place you reside, girls have the appropriate to emergency care — together with abortion care.”
Texas Legal professional Basic Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Biden administration a number of days later, arguing that EMTALA doesn’t assure entry to abortion. He mentioned that as a result of the Supreme Courtroom dominated in Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group the Structure not holds the appropriate to abortion that EMTALA is “an unconstitutional train of authority and should be held illegal and put aside.”
The Texas lawsuit mentioned that the HHS steerage would pressure well being care suppliers “to decide on between violating state legislation underneath menace of prison penalty or jeopardizing their means to take part in” federal well being care applications like Medicare and Medicaid.
Paxton additionally wrote the federal legislation violates the tenth Modification, which says that any powers not given to the federal authorities by the Structure fall to the states and the individuals.
The transient filed by the 20 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday urges the federal choose within the case to not grant Texas’ request for a preliminary injunction.
The attorneys common wrote that they’ve a considerable curiosity within the case as a result of the states themselves are well being care suppliers for thousands and thousands of individuals in addition to regulators of well being care.
They argued that their states have a “robust curiosity in defending the rights of their residents who might have emergency medical care whereas current as college students, employees, or guests in Texas and different States which will try to ban emergency abortion care opposite to EMTALA’s necessities.”
Additionally they wrote that “if sufferers in Texas are denied needed emergency abortion care, they might journey to close by States (together with amici New Mexico and Colorado) to obtain the emergency care they want.”
“These States would thus expertise extra pressures on their already overwhelmed hospital techniques, particularly in rural and underserved areas that may be most importantly affected,” they wrote.
Reviews of postponed care
The states sought to focus on the wide-ranging affect that blocking EMTALA protections for abortion would have for sufferers who want a being pregnant ended to keep away from extreme well being issues or loss of life.
The transient famous that “docs in Texas reported suspending care ‘till a affected person’s well being or being pregnant complication has deteriorated to the purpose that their life was at risk, together with a number of circumstances the place sufferers have been despatched dwelling, solely to return as soon as they have been in sepsis.’”
“As one other instance, a doctor at a tutorial medical heart described how a hospital requested her to simply accept a affected person ‘who was already septic’ after the transferring hospital, on conscience-refusal grounds, refused to carry out the abortion wanted to save lots of the affected person’s life, as an alternative transferring the affected person in an unstable state as a result of the fetus had cardiac exercise,” the transient states. “The doctor who handled the affected person after the switch reported the transferring hospital for violating EMTALA.”
The states wrote that if Texas, or different states with extreme abortion restrictions, didn’t need to adjust to EMTALA it might have a big affect on well being care suppliers in close by states.
“Emergency rooms in New Mexico and Colorado and different neighboring states will inevitably want to soak up the out-of-state affected person want for care that Texas’s legislation will trigger, at a time when the states proceed to wrestle with an ongoing world pandemic and new public well being crises,” they wrote.
Maryland Issues Editor Danielle E. Gaines contributed to this report.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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