Given the Supreme Court’s non-answer to the question of whether EMTALA requires abortions for emergency stabilizing care in Moyle v. United States this summer, hospitals, health care providers, patients, and state governments have been left in limbo as litigation continues in Idaho and Texas. This panel discussion will explore how care on the ground may be affected as the cases again make their way through the judicial system as well as policy and litigation challenges associated with using a statute like EMTALA to protect abortion access.
The panel will feature Dr. Loren Colson, co-President of Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare and a practicing abortion provider in Idaho, and Prof. Joanne Rosen, an expert in reproductive health care public policy from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, moderated by Priscilla Smith ’91, Director and Senior Fellow of the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice. Non-pizza lunch will be served.
Dr. Loren Colson (he/him) is a family physician who resides in Boise, Idaho where he provides comprehensive care including obstetrics, reproductive care, pediatrics, and hospital medicine to his community. He is president and a founding member of the Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare, a health advocacy organization comprised of approximately 1000 Idahoans dedicated to safe, legal, and equitable access to evidence-based medical care. This coalition provided an amicus brief to the EMATALA Supreme Court Case Moyle v. United States that was cited by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent. He is also a fellow of the Physicians for Reproductive Health, state cluster leader for the Reproductive Health Access Project, and heavily involved at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is currently representing the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians in Adkins v. Idaho, a lawsuit brought with the help of the Center for Reproductive Rights challenging Idaho’s total abortion ban.
Joanne Rosen (JD, MA) (she/her) is a Practice Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. She is the Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health. Her interests include abortion, reproductive health, intimate behavior and relationships, sexual and gender diverse populations, and discrimination. She is particularly interested in laws that regulate in these areas and their impact on public health. Joanne has written on abortion, stigma, LGBTQ health disparities, and crisis pregnancy centers. Her research has been published in several high impact journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Public Health. She teaches courses in LGBTQ Health Policy and Legal and Public Health Issues in the Regulation of Intimacy. Before moving to the United States, Joanne served as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in Toronto, Canada, and specialized in human rights and administrative law.
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