This piece first appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Fallout.

The conservative legal movement’s quest to erase abortion from health care took a devastating leap forward last week as the Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s abortion ban and refused to provide guidance for what, if any, medical exceptions would fit the ban’s narrow exception.

The decision is a textbook example of legal gaslighting that takes a page directly from Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and offers a likely preview of what’s to come when the Supreme Court issues its ruling in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) case out of Idaho later this month.

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