The Supreme Court’s decision to let emergency abortions temporarily continue in Idaho sets the stage for more lawsuits in the battle between states and the Biden administration over whether federal requirements ultimately trump state reproductive laws.
Whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act overrides state abortion bans is a question the justices left unresolved in Thursday’s Moyle v. United States. The justices’ decision reinstates a federal court order allowing Idaho hospitals to perform emergency abortions and sends the case back to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
While the Supreme Court outcome marks a temporary ...
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