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Supreme Court Reveals Dismissal of Idaho Emergency Abortion Ban Case Updated: Published by:

A copy of an opinion “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the U.S. Supreme Court’s website on Wednesday revealed that it may allow emergency abortions in Idaho.  The Idaho law at issue outlaws all abortions unless necessary to prevent a pregnant woman’s death. It does not contain exceptions for abortions necessary…

Planned Parenthood Sues Over Idaho’s Out-of-State Abortion Referral Ban Updated: Published by:

Planned Parenthood sued for injunctive and declaratory relief in federal court on Wednesday over the Idaho Attorney General's assertion that the state's criminal abortion law prohibits medical providers from referring women to access abortion services outside the state.

Plaintiffs Cite Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision as Support in Climate Change Lawsuit Updated: Published by:

On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, plaintiffs in Juliana et al. v. United States of America, a climate change lawsuit previously dismissed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, cited the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights as novel precedent to support the need to go to trial.