Well, looks like President Trump and his team just took another Biden-era policy out to the woodshed—and this time, it’s the radical EMTALA reinterpretation that tried to make abortion the default treatment for, well, just about everything involving pregnancy.
You’ve got to hand it to the Biden administration: they really went all in on turning emergency rooms into abortion clinics. But now, thankfully, the Trump administration has hit the brakes and yanked that guidance off the books, restoring some sanity—and legality—to the healthcare system.
Let’s back up. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, was written to ensure that patients in medical distress are stabilized and treated—regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. Seems reasonable. But under Biden, this became a sneaky backdoor for mandating abortion.
In 2022, his administration interpreted EMTALA to mean that even in pro-life states—where the laws are clear and democratically passed—doctors could be forced to perform abortions if it was deemed “stabilizing treatment.” No room for conscience. No room for federalism. Just top-down, one-size-fits-all abortion mandates from the most pro-abortion White House in U.S. history.
Well, not anymore. As of this week, the Trump administration has scrapped that interpretation, calling it what it was: legally flimsy and morally offensive. The Department of Health and Human Services made it official, stating clearly that the old guidance no longer reflects the policy of this administration. Instead, EMTALA will return to its original intent—protecting both mothers and their unborn children. What a concept.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has officially withdrawn President Biden’s guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that misused the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to force emergency room doctors to commit abortions—even in states… pic.twitter.com/TyO1TthNtg
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) June 3, 2025
Naturally, this has sent the usual suspects into a tailspin. Senator Elizabeth Warren is probably drafting a fiery letter as we speak, and cable news panels are surely preparing to accuse Trump of “attacking reproductive freedom” and “rolling back civil rights.” Because, in their world, nothing screams freedom like coercing a doctor to terminate a pregnancy against their will—or against state law.
Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are celebrating this move for what it is: a long-overdue course correction. Roger Severino of The Heritage Foundation nailed it when he said Biden’s EMTALA reinterpretation turned a pro-life law on its head. EMTALA was designed to safeguard life—not end it. Biden’s crew somehow inverted that and tried to pretend the law was a blank check for abortions, regardless of state statutes or ethical considerations.
Even more galling, they couldn’t bring themselves to use the word “woman.” No, in typical woke fashion, they reduced expectant mothers to “pregnant patients,” because biology is just a social construct now, apparently.
This isn’t just about abortion—it’s about conscience, the rule of law, and federalism. The Biden administration ignored all three. Trump, love him or hate him, is doing what he promised: dismantling the radical policies left behind and putting power back in the hands of states, doctors, and voters. And in doing so, he’s making it clear that hospitals should be places of healing, not battlegrounds for ideological warfare.
President Trump promised to dismantle the abortion radicalism left by his predecessor and today another abortion mandate bites the dust. Wide majorities of Americans oppose forcing doctors and hospitals to take innocent human life and this change goes back to respecting… pic.twitter.com/CwFxDfn8EH
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) June 3, 2025
And let’s not forget—this is just the latest in a string of pro-life actions since Trump’s return to office. He’s already reinstated the Mexico City policy, cutting off taxpayer funds for foreign abortion mills, and reinforced the Hyde Amendment, making sure your tax dollars aren’t used to fund abortions here at home either. It’s a sharp contrast to the “abortion at any time, for any reason, on your dime” approach we just spent four years watching.
So yes, another abortion mandate just bit the dust. And if this pace keeps up, the Biden-era obsession with pushing abortion from every corner of government may soon be little more than a footnote in the history books. And for millions of Americans who still believe in life, liberty, and medical ethics, that can’t come soon enough.
