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Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica
Did Georgia hospital break federal law by failing to save Amber Thurman? Senator wants to know.
The Georgia hospital that failed to save Amber Thurman may have broken a federal law when doctors there waited 20 hours to perform a procedure criminalized by the state’s abortion ban, according to Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, requires hospitals to provide […]