Supreme Court kicks Idaho emergency abortion ban back to lower court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court docket on Thursday launched an opinion permitting emergency abortions in Idaho however avoiding the bigger query of state abortion bans. It’s the ultimate model of an opinion that was inadvertently launched on Wednesday.
The 6-3 resolution lifts a keep on a earlier court docket’s order to permit abortions in uncommon however life-threatening circumstances. The Well being and Human Providers Division sued Idaho in 2022, arguing that the states’ near-total abortion ban clashed with federal legal guidelines to offer stabilizing care in emergency conditions.
A model of the opinion was briefly inadvertently posted on the Supreme Court docket’s web site and spotted by Bloomberg Law. The choice punts the case between HHS and Idaho again to the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals.
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