CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association (AMA) should speak out more forcefully on the Trump administration's rescission of guidance on provision of abortions during a medical emergency, AMA delegates said Saturday.

"I'm terrified for my patients," Allie Conry, MD, of Memphis, Tennessee, a delegate for the Resident and Fellows Section who spoke for herself during a reference committee hearing . "I work in a county hospital that is publicly funded and will likely get wrapped up in this in some way or shape or form." Conry was referring to the Trump administration's recession of guidelines for hospitals related to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), issued in 2022 by the Biden administration. The guidelines outline the circumstances under which hospitals ca

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