US Emergency Law Backers Decry Idaho’s Near-Total Abortion Ban

Nearly all federal Democratic lawmakers and 17 women who say they were denied medically necessary abortions are among over two dozen groups urging the US Supreme Court to find that a federal emergency care law supersedes Idaho’s near-total abortion ban.

The groups filed friend of the court briefs supporting the US in its quest to strike down the Idaho law to the extent that it allegedly conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The 1985 federal law was intended to prevent a practice known as “patient dumping” in which hospitals would turn away patients with emergency medical ...