 Three conservatives, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch, dissented. At issue is the nearly four-decade-old Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, which requires certain hospitals to stabilize or transfer patients needing emergency care. That was from the Washington Post. This decision was released as House Democrats were holding a news conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building about abortion and reproductive rights.