2024-01-06 08:33:11
A year and a half following the Supreme Court’s reversal on abortion, chaos in the courts remains omnipresent. Two pregnant women, in Texas and Kentucky, are demanding in court the possibility of terminating their pregnancies. In Idaho, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to temporarily reinstate a near-total ban on abortion in the state of Idaho pending consideration of an appeal once morest the measure .
The Biden administration filed an appeal
A hearing before the highest American court – which annulled the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion in June 2022 – is scheduled for April.
The Biden administration filed a lawsuit once morest the state of Idaho, arguing that the law conflicts with a federal law that requires hospitals receiving federal funds to provide emergency care, including IVG, in serious cases but not necessarily fatal.
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Idaho, rural state with the most restrictive abortion laws
Idaho, a rural state in the northwest of the country, has some of the most restrictive laws regarding voluntary termination of pregnancy and only allows the procedure if there is imminent danger of death to the pregnant woman. Outside of this framework, anyone performing or assisting in performing an abortion risks up to five years in prison.
A federal judge in Boise, the capital of Idaho, issued a preliminary injunction in August 2022 that suspended that state’s law, arguing that it put doctors in an awkward position.
“Nothing protects a physician from arrest or criminal prosecution under Idaho law, and a physician providing an abortion in Idaho cannot avoid [d’engager sa] criminal liability only by establishing that “the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman””, advances the Ministry of Justice.
Up to 99 years in prison for doctors guilty of providing abortion
By annulling the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion in 2022, the Supreme Court left American states free to enact their own legislation in this area.
A Texan woman was recently forced to leave the southern state to obtain an emergency abortion. She was denied the procedure in Texas, despite the fact that her pregnancy posed life-threatening risks.
Doctors in Texas convicted of providing an abortion face up to 99 years in prison, fines of up to $100,000 and revocation of their medical licenses.
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