The Supreme Court's Idaho abortion ruling is a deceptive loss for women's health care

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The Supreme Court has sidestepped a ruling on a challenge to Idaho’s strict abortion law, allowing emergency abortions to continue in the state while a lower court considers the case. NBC News' Lisa Rubin explains the Supreme Court's decision and its implications on women in Idaho.

On Thursday the Supreme Court majority used a cynical sleight of hand to deliver what seems on the surface, at least, calculated to strike the casual observer as an abortion-rights victory. At best, that’s a cruel deception. At worst, it’s a deflection designed to help former President Donald Trump pull some wool over the few undecided eyes that remain out there as the election nears.

Worse, if Trump is elected president again, his attorney general will abandon the challenge to laws like Idaho’s, leaving women’s health across the country as roadkill. Noting the near certainty of another petition for certiorari like the one dismissed Thursday, Jackson accused the majority of avoiding a decision that it simply preferred not to face now. That’s judicial diplomacy for “political chicanery before the election.

 

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