Dr. Oz undoes Biden rule requiring emergency abortions

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The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a Biden-era policy interpreting emergency medicine statutes as effectively requiring physicians to perform abortions in states with laws prohibiting elective abortion. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, headed by Dr. Mehmet Oz, said in a press release it was rolling back Biden administration-issued guidance interpreting the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, as contrary to laws in more than half of the states prohibiting abortion.

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