The immediate threat to the health and safety of pregnant patients in Idaho has been pulled back for now — but our rights are still under attack.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a lower court's order that blocks Idaho from ignoring federal law and denying emergency abortion care to pregnant patients.
But the Supreme Court did NOT rule on whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) protects pregnant patients' access to abortion care during medical emergencies in every state — including those with abortion bans.
The U.S. Supreme Court's failure to make clear that federal law protects the right to emergency abortion care in
every state means that the uncertainty, fear, and looming threat to the health and lives of pregnant people remain.
We can't back down, we can't let up, and we can't stop fighting to protect reproductive health and rights.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made the stakes crystal clear:
