U.S. Supreme Court reauthorizes abortion in medical emergency in Idaho

The Supreme Court of the United States has decided to continue allowing, for the time being and in the state of Idaho, abortion when pregnant women face medical emergencies. The 6-3 ruling, with three of the six conservative justices dissenting, restored a lower court’s ruling Thursday that Idaho’s Republican-backed near-total abortion ban must yield to the 1986 U.S. law. known as Emergency Medical Treatment and. Labor Law (EMTALA) when the two statutes conflict, as Reuters explains.

Idaho is one of six states that ban abortion without exceptions to protect the health of pregnant women. In 2022, the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States decided to overturn the ruling in Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 legalized the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. The decision was approved by six conservative judges (half of whom were appointed during Donald Trump’s term) against three liberals.

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The Joe Biden administration had sued the US state of Idaho, arguing that EMTALA had precedence over state lawThe aforementioned statute ensures that patients can receive emergency care at hospitals that receive funding from the federal Medicare program. On Wednesday, a version of the decision, which is now official, was inadvertently posted on the Supreme Court’s website.

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“Today’s Supreme Court ruling ensures that women in Idaho can access the emergency medical care they need while this case makes its way back to the lower courts,” Biden said in a statement cited by Reuters. The US president understands that no woman “should be denied medical care,” nor “made to wait until she is on the brink of death or forced to flee her home state just to get the medical care she needs.”