The Supreme Court ruled state abortion bans enacted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade violates federal health care law that requires hospitals accepting…
violates federal health care law that requires hospitals accepting Medicare to provide emergency care regardless of patients’ ability to pay.In a 6-3 vote, the court found that court should not have gotten involved in the case over Idaho's strict abortion ban so quickly. It reinstates a lower court order that had allowed hospitals in the state to perform emergency abortions to protect a pregnant patient’s health. However, the outcome leaves the issues at the heart of the case unresolved.
The high court had already allowed the state ban to go into effect, even in medical emergencies. The Biden administration argued that federal law overrides the state in rare emergency cases where a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk. “Within these rare cases, there’s a significant number where the woman’s life is not in peril, but she’s going to lose her reproductive organs. She’s going to lose the ability to have children in the future unless an abortion takes place,” said Justice Elena Kagan.
Turner acknowledged that a doctor could face a criminal case in that situation. Performing an abortion outside of limited exceptions in Idaho is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
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