Doctors are bracing for a possible rollback of a federal law protecting their ability to provide abortions in medical emergencies.

Despite issuing executive orders weakening abortion protections, including restricting the use of federal funds to help people access the procedure, President Donald Trump has so far left the Emergency Medicine Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) alone.

The Biden administration clarified that EMTALA requires hospitals to perform abortions when they are necessary to stabilize a patient. That guidance trumped individual state bans on abortion and meant that hospitals had to provide abortions in medical emergencies — and that failure to do so could result in financial penalties.