Affirming hospitals' obligation to provide emergency care, including abortion services, to pregnant people under EMTALA.
The bill affirms and supports the requirement that hospitals in Hawaii provide life-saving emergency care to pregnant people, including reproductive and abortion services, when such care is medically necessary to stabilize a patient under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). It urges all hospitals, regardless of religious affiliation, to uphold these standards of care and ensure no pregnant patient experiencing a medical emergency is denied or delayed stabilizing care.
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