Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Wednesday in attempt to block Idaho's six-week abortion ban after the state enacted legislation similar to a Texas law that prohibits the procedure before many people know they are pregnant.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Wednesday in attempt to block Idaho's six-week abortion ban after the state enacted legislation similar to a Texas law that prohibits the procedure before many people know they are pregnant., health care providers urged the Idaho Supreme Court to block the policy from taking effect, calling it an "unprecedented power grab by the Idaho Legislature” that will wreak “havoc on this State’s constitutional norms and the lives of its citizens.
The law bans abortion once cardiac activity is detected — usually around six weeks of pregnancy — except in cases of rape and incest. It also allows family members of the fetus to sue a doctor for a minimum of $20,000 within four years of an abortion.
Gibron said that the lawmakers who support the measure “sold their souls to an extremist minority." and that Planned Parenthood "will not allow them to take away our control over our own bodies. We will go to every length to restore Idahoans’ right to abortion.”"We are finding ways to save lives. I believe that we are also saving many young women from a mistake that they end up regretting for the rest of their lives," Ehardt said.
Ehardt added, "short of Roe v. Wade being overturned, which we are expecting to happen, this is something that we can look to to save babies." Even though Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the bill, he had some reservations, writing, “while I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise.
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