Lawmakers Urge Court to Uphold US’ Idaho Emergency Abortion Win

A federal emergency care law displaces Idaho’s abortion ban to the extent the state law precludes a doctor from ending a pregnancy when it’s necessary to stabilize a patient’s emergency medical condition, Congressional Democrats told a federal appeals court on Tuesday.

The 259-member group led by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem S. Jeffries (NY) said the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should affirm a lower court’s decision that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts an Idaho law that could lead to criminal prosecutions for doctors who perform abortions ...