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BY KENDALL TURNER, CARRIE N. BAKER, KATHY SPILLAR, ROXANNE SZAL and SHOSHANNA EHRLICH | In the official decision on the Supreme Court’s final major abortion case of the term, it ruled that Idaho cannot prohibit doctors from performing emergency abortions for women with life-threatening pregnancy complications … for now.

The Supreme Court ruling would only apply to Idaho, while the case is being sent back through the appellate process. SCOTUS refused to protect women experiencing emergency pregnancy complications in any other state with a severe ban similar to Idaho. At least six states that ban abortion do not have exceptions for the health of pregnant women. 

Even for pregnant patients in Idaho, the win is limited: It does nothing to help women pregnant with fetuses that have fetal anomalies. It blocks the state of Idaho from enforcing its near-total ban only when a patient requires “necessary stabilizing treatment” for an emergency medical condition that puts a patient’s health in serious jeopardy, including “serious impairment of bodily functions or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part.” 

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BY JILL FILIPOVIC | On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued the official ruling in its final major abortion case of 2024, dismissing the consolidated cases of Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States. The Court’s dismissal temporarily upholds a lower court ruling that sided with the Biden administration in requiring that hospitals perform life and health-saving abortions where needed.

This is good news for obvious reasons—chief among them that “women don’t deserve to die or become disabled because they got pregnant in an anti-abortion state” really should not be up for debate. With this decision, Idaho individuals still won’t have basic abortion rights, but they will at least have the same rights as everyone else to be medically stabilized if they find themselves pregnant and in an emergency medical situation.

But this Court wouldn’t answer a vital question: Do pregnant women deserve the same medical treatment to save their lives and preserve their health as everyone else? It may not be the worst-case scenario, but it’s also not any sort of win.

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BY RAEGAN MCDONALD-MOSLEY | Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the number of out-of-state patients I’ve seen as an abortion provider in Maryland has skyrocketed. Many of the individuals who were able to get the abortion they sought had to navigate costly barriers. However, the patients I see are the ones who have overcome all of these obstacles to get the basic healthcare they need.

It pains me to think about all the patients who do not make it to the health center, the ones who cannot navigate the myriad barriers to get the abortion care they need out-of-state.

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