Forget the 'split court' garbage. This Supreme Court is not going to protect even emergency abortions. Here's what you need to know.
Happy Thursday. There are 193 days left until the election and we are back in the Supreme Court — last time for a while, I swear. But I can't come up with anything funny to say about it, because my heart is heavy. It looks like the United States is quickly reverting to a place where pregnancy is a dangerous condition, no exceptions. The justices heard another abortion access case on Wednesday. This one was a last-ditch hope by the U.S.
says the standard can't be if a woman is going to die — but whether her health may be permanently and seriously harmed. As the U.S. Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar put it Wednesday: 'In Idaho, doctors have to shut their eyes to everything except death, whereas, under . Idaho argued that its law wasn't going against federal law because 'nothing in
, but how it is doing so — through lame substandard care that is totally fine with the men who passed the law and which should also be cool with the Supreme Court. That includes forcing some women to take expensive emergency medical helicopters to other states for care. That has happened six times so far this year at the state's major emergency hospital. Last year, it happened once.
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