The law, which is based on a similar one that Texas enacted last year, was signed by Idaho Gov. Brad Little last week.
BOISE, Idaho — A regional Planned Parenthood organization is suing Idaho over a new law that bans nearly all abortions by allowing potential family members of the embryo to sue abortion providers.
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, which operates 40 health centers across six states, filed the lawsuit with the Idaho Supreme Court on Wednesday. Under the law, even extended family members like aunts and uncles of the patient seeking the abortion or the person who impregnated them could sue an abortion abortion provider for more than $20,000 in damages. While rapists are barred from suing under the law, a rapist’s relatives could sue the rape victim’s abortion provider.
The organization is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to stop the law from taking effect, to declare it unconstitutional and to order the state to pay the legal costs associated with the case.
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