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Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict

By Kaiser Health News
| August 08, 2022

Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, doctors have been placed in an impossible position — squeezed between anti-abortion laws in Ohio and other states and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act.

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