ABORTION
US Supreme Court to allow emergency abortions in Idaho
A leak on the court’s website, obtained by Bloomberg, suggests the court will increase the abortion protections beyond just the life of the mother.
The US Supreme Court is set to widen Idaho’s laws for when an abortion is allowed, according to a preliminary ruling obtained by Bloomberg.
The publication says the decision would reinstate a lower court order that the state could perform emergency abortions to protect the health of the mother. This is a wider interpretation of the state law, which was previously allowed only if the mother’s life is in danger.
The copy of the opinion may not be the final ruling.
Abortion laws in Idaho
Idaho’s near-total abortion ban took effect after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, eliminating the federal constitutional right to abortion.
The state had passed a “trigger law” in 2020 that made nearly all abortions illegal, with exceptions only for cases where the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother or results from rape or incest, with the latter requiring the woman to report the crime to police.