Linda is a former Presidential Management Fellow who wrote the EMTALA enforcement regulations while she was lead on the Medicare EMTALA enforcement program in the mid-1990s. She is the co-author of “EMTALA in the 90’s – Enforcement Challenges,” in Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, Case Western Reserve University.
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OPINION: What we can do to fight back and slow the attacks against women this November
This is part six in a series on the increase in violence against women since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the future of abortion care and emergency medical treatment in the United States. Read part one here. By the definition we have laid out, Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist—and…
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OPINION: Forcing women to deliver a dead fetus is anything but dignified
xplore the harsh realities and consequences of abortion bans in the US, where women are forced to endure traumatic pregnancies.
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OPINION: Courts mull over abortion ban exceptions while women’s lives hang in the balance
This is part four in a series on the increase in violence against women since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the future of abortion care and emergency medical treatment in the United States. Read part one here. Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took matters into his own hands in State…
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OPINION: SCOTUS to decide whether abortion bans violate federal emergency medical treatment guarantee
This is part three in a series on the increase in violence against women since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the future of abortion care and emergency medical treatment in the United States. Read part one here. The US Supreme Court has accepted two abortion cases for 2024, one involving pharmaceutical…
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Opinion: Don’t think Arizona abortion bans are harming women? Think again.
Explore the critical state of women’s healthcare under restrictive Arizona abortion bans, featuring real-life impacts and legal challenges.
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OPINION: Domestic Terrorism Prevents Women from Getting Lifesaving Abortions
Domestic Terrorism Prevents Women from Getting Lifesaving Abortions Twenty-five years ago, in the kitchen of his suburban Buffalo, New York, home, Dr. Barnett Slepian was preparing soup with his family. The OB-GYN and abortion provider had just returned home from synagogue, where he had attended a memorial service for his father. Suddenly, a bullet pierced…
