Lawmakers’ Appeal in Emergency Abortion Case Ended by Ninth Cir.

Idaho lawmakers were thwarted in their attempt to help the state defend US claims that its near-total abortion ban can’t be lawfully applied in emergency situations.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday dismissed the legislators’ appeal from an order that denied their request for mandatory intervention in a US suit.

The Biden administration had alleged that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempted Idaho’s abortion ban to the extent that it potentially criminalized emergency abortions.

District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said that mandatory intervention wasn’t required because the lawmakers’ interests aligned with those ...