Wednesday’s highlights all came from the women justices, who were determined to make sure the public understands that this is much more than a debate about federal spending power—it’s a constitutional crisis with patients’ lives at the center.

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'We are watching reproductive health care crumble around us, leaving patients stranded and in very real crises...OB-GYNs are already fleeing states with increasingly restrictive abortion laws. This terrifies me.' -Nadija Rieser, MD via Rewire News Group
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Turner basically just suggested the federal government won't stop here and will use EMTALA to force states to provide abortions. That... isn't going to happen!

He also already got ripped apart on these points. Yet here he goes again! We're back to his examples about nurses not being able to perform heart surgery, again implying EMTALA would require this. It does not!

Turner is back for rebuttal, claiming that the federal government requires specific treatments for specific cases under EMTALA. This just isn't true! EMTALA requires 'stabilizing care.' Doctors figure out what that is because that's their job

Prelogar wraps up and the Idaho AG is back up for rebuttal and sounds absolutely sleepy by comparison

There's a similar case out of Texas, but in that case Texas sued the federal govt, not the other way around

#EMTALA protects patients. For people who are pregnant and in need of emergency abortion care, it is a mandated, federal safeguard that must be preserved. Read from @rewirenewsgroup an explainer on the law in today’s #SCOTUS arguments: tinyurl.com/vr2fb9kp

Justice Kavanaugh notes that its 'important' to consider 'what's happening on the ground' which ...thanks Brett

Part of the reason the federal govt sued Idaho is because initially its ban seemed even to prohibit care for ectopic pregnancies, explains Prelogar. The state did concede that and has since modified the law to allow treatment for those cases.

Is the federal government aware of any state other than Idaho with abortion ban exceptions so narrow they violate EMTALA? Yes, says Prelogar, there are six others.