Pro-abortion and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024.The Supreme Court will allow Idaho hospital physicians to provide abortions when they are needed in medical emergencies, the court ruled Thursday, in an opinion that was briefly made public Wednesday andThe writing represents a meaningful — if temporary — victory for health care providers.
In an opinion that was part concurrence and part dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the court’s liberal members, said the decision left major legal questions unresolved while delaying clarity for health care providers and patients in Idaho. “That question is as ripe for decision as it ever will be. Apparently, the Court has simply lost the will to decide the easy but emotional and highly politicized question that the case presents. That is regrettable,” he wrote.
have been filed against hospitals in states with abortion bans, where patients say they were denied care in pregnancy-related emergencies in violation of the federal law.
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