We joined 98 other organizations in supporting the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, as Idaho attempted to dismantle access to life-saving abortion care.

Accepting Idaho’s reading of EMTALA—which distorts the statutory text beyond reason and recognition—would deepen the United States’ maternal health crisis, particularly for Black, Indigenous, immigrant, rural, and low-income communities.

Amici Curiae

The Supreme Court must protect access to emergency abortion care. Without it, people will die. Christian nationalists have waged war on every single aspect of our lives but they fail to recognize that the majority is with us.

Lily Bolourian

Former AHA Legal and Policy Director

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