Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an Idaho lawsuit challenging doctors’ authority to perform emergency abortions to stabilize a patient’s health and life under the federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). But as Salon reported at the time, the dismissal of the lawsuit didn’t really bring clarity to emergency room doctors across the state.

Now, a new analysis by the Associated Press shows that dozens of pregnant women are being turned away from emergency rooms, even though they are protected by federal law and the Biden administration is publicly warning hospitals not to treat pregnant patients except in emergency situations.

According to the analysis, since 2022, more than 100 pregnant women seeking care in emergency rooms have been turned away or treated negligently. Two women, one in Florida and one in Texas, suffered miscarriages in public restrooms. In another case in Texas, a woman lost her fallopian tube after being denied treatment for an ectopic pregnancy – even though Texas law technically allows doctors to terminate ectopic pregnancies.

In another Florida case highlighted in the analysis, a woman who was 15 weeks pregnant presented to the emergency room with amniotic fluid leakage. According to the AP analysis, the woman also miscarried in a public restroom after emergency room physicians described her condition as “improved” and discharged her. She was later taken to another hospital, put on a ventilator, and discharged six days later. Premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is when a pregnant woman’s amniotic sac ruptures too early. The likelihood of a fetus surviving under 22 weeks of gestation is low. At the same time, a pregnant woman whose amniotic sac ruptures in the second trimester is at increased risk for infections such as chorioamnionitis and sepsis.

AP’s investigation also found that in states without abortion bans, there were “serious violations that endangered the health of the mother or her fetus.”