The move doesn't change federal law, but doctors and abortion-rights advocates fear that it will amplify confusion.

The Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era policy requiring hospitals to perform emergency abortions regardless of state abortion laws.

In 2022, the Biden administration issued the existing directive to hospitals in an effort to preserve abortion access for extreme cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss, severe hemorrhaging, or other serious complications, the AP reported.