A federal judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors for health-protecting abortions
The ruling lets doctors provide abortions when a pregnancy threatens health or self-harm, but keeps limits for fetal diagnoses and disabilities.
- On Thursday, District Judge Lynn Winmill blocked Idaho officials from enforcing the state's criminal abortion ban in cases where pregnancy threatens a patient's health or poses a risk of self-harm.
- Since The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Idaho and a dozen other states have banned virtually all abortions, prompting a series of pending legal challenges nationwide.
- Winmill's 81-page decision determined that the Fourteenth Amendment establishes a "narrow but fundamental right" to abortion when pregnancy threatens a woman's life or health, including severe mental health conditions.
- Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador intends to appeal the decision, while The Idaho Family Policy Center warned that civil liability for physicians remains under the state's 'Defense of Life' law.
- A voter-led Initiative appearing on November ballots this year could overturn the ban entirely, potentially enumerating protections for women's reproductive healthcare and privacy into state law.
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District Judge Orders Loosening of Idaho Abortion Ban
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Opposing sides react as Federal Judge Blocks key portions of Idaho’s Abortion Ban
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Idaho judge ruling allows abortion if it protects mother’s health, prevents self-harm
BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — A pregnant woman may receive abortions in many cases if there are serious risks to her health or if there’s a high risk she will harm herself, an Idaho federal judge has ruled. The decision, released Thursday, marks a major change to the Idaho abortion ban’s exemptions. The judge determined […]
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A federal judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors for health-protecting abortions
A federal judge says Idaho can't prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person's health or prevent self-harm. U.S. District Judge B.
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