Pelosi Statement on Supreme Court Decision Temporarily Allowing Emergency Health Care

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the Supreme Court decision in Moyle v. United States:

“Today, the Supreme Court has given women temporary reprieve by deciding, for now, not to criminalize certain basic emergency reproductive care.  But in not clearly recognizing the protections of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, this Court has enabled further litigation – and suffering and confusion for pregnant patients and doctors.

“Make no mistake: by striking down Roe v. Wade two years ago, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for draconian state laws criminalizing women’s health care.  Women today have less freedom than their mothers and their grandmothers – due to Donald Trump and his MAGA majority on the Court.

“While the Court has delayed its decision on drastically restricting the freedom of women, Republicans will not rest until they ban abortion nationwide.  The Biden-Harris Administration and Democrats in Congress are fighting hard against extreme MAGA attempts to restrict women’s reproductive rights, in Idaho and across the country – and we are fully committed to restoring Roe as the law of the land.”