The court did not address the underlying question of whether the federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, trumps Idaho's near-total ban in certain circumstances. Instead, the decision indicates the Supreme Court believes it intervened in the dispute too soon. The c...
“Today’s order means that, while we continue to litigate our case, women in Idaho will once again have access to the emergency care guaranteed to them under federal law,” he said. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who objected to the court failing to decide the case, read her dissenting...
A Supreme Court decision allows emergency abortion care despite a state ban in Idaho while the case works its way through lower courts
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Supreme Court is considering a case that will determine when doctors can provide abortions during medical emergencies in states with bans enacted after the high court’s sweeping decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court has let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
In asking the Supreme Court to toss out the lower court decision, the administration pointed to a similar case from Idaho earlier this year in which the justices narrowly allowed emergency abortions to resume while a lawsuit continues. At the time the Idaho case began, ...
“The Court’s order today means women in Idaho should once again have access to the emergency care that they need while the case proceeds in the lower courts. However, it does not change the fact that reproductive freedom is under attack. The Biden-Harris Administration is ...
Anti-abortion groups were skeptical about the finality of the document briefly published on the Supreme Court’s website Thursday and criticized the Biden administration’s argument that the Emergency Medical Treatment Labor Act (EMTALA) should be used to protect abortion access in ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortions, for now, in a procedural order that left key questi…