The court said hospitals cannot be forced to provide pregnancy terminations that would break the law in Texas.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to enforce in Texas federal guidance requiring hospitals to perform abortions if needed to stabilize a patient's emergency medical condition.

The Supreme Court kept in place a order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Texas's abortion ban, allowing hospitals to deny certain emergency terminations that may violate state law.

The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a court order blocking the Biden administration from enforcing in Texas its policy of requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care or risk losing federal funding.

The US Supreme Court rebuffed the Biden administration in an abortion clash, leaving intact an appeals court decision favoring Texas in a fight over the availability of the procedure in hospital emergency rooms.