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Texas again proves the only way for Biden to win on abortion is to take the legal fights head on [1]

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Date: 2022-07-14

Fight, Mr. President. Fight.

The White House is still apparently paralyzed over whether or not to declare a public health emergency over abortion access, something President Joe Biden has explicitly said is on the table. His “top aides” are apparently conflicted. Outside legal advisers, according to The Washington Post’s reporting, are giving him the worst reason of all for not doing it, warning “that an emergency declaration would face inevitable legal challenges, potentially giving conservative judges an opportunity to cut back on the administration’s emergency authority.”

Meanwhile, those lawsuits are coming anyway. On Thursday, Texas filed suit against the administration for its new rules requiring abortions be provided in medical emergencies to save the life of the pregnant person. Read that again: Texas is trying to block the federal government from requiring hospitals to save the actual lives of living, breathing, functioning humans.

Like the 19-week-pregnant woman whose water broke and whose life was threatened with an ensuing infection, just hours later. Dr. Mae-Lan Wang Winchester, an OB-GYN in Cleveland, had to call her lawyer to make sure it would be okay to end that woman’s pregnancy in order to save her actual life. “The first person I called is my lawyer to be like … ‘Do I need to do anything different or special? I know what to do medically, but what do I do legally to protect her, protect me?’” Winchester said. This is what the administration attempted to clarify with their order to the states—that this lifesaving care was required of medical personnel.

“It could mean life and death if I’m stopping care when I think this patient needs to go forward, but I want to run it by the lawyer just to make sure that I’m covered,” Dr. Tani Malhotra, a Cleveland-based OB-GYN who works with Winchester, told NBC News. “When people are bleeding, when people are hemorrhaging, when people are getting really sick, a few minutes makes all the difference.”

RELATED: Biden mulls declaring abortion public health emergency. White House staff need to get out of his way

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