“I don’t know,” admitted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “The answer to that is I don’t know.”
The could-be secretary of Health and Human Services was responding to a somewhat procedural—but important—question during his first confirmation hearing: whether federal law ensures that a pregnant person has a right to emergency care if they are experiencing life-threatening bleeding from an incomplete miscarriage. The answer is that most hospitals must indeed provide such services, even in a…

