Idaho’s near-total abortion ban will not take effect Thursday as planned after a federal judge temporarily blocked the law. KBSX915
“Idaho’s choice to impose severe and sweeping sanctions that decrease the overall availability of emergency abortion care flies in the face of Congress’s deliberate decision to do the opposite,” wrote Idaho District Court Judge Lynn Winmill.Survivors of rape and incest would need to file a police report and share that with their doctor, which advocates argue is unrealistic. Police reports aren’t public documents until an investigation is complete, which can take months or years.
The Idaho Attorney General’s office argued hospitals are only required to stabilize a patient under that federal law – not cure them. “So even though accused healthcare workers might avoid a conviction, the statute still makes it impossible to provide an abortion without also committing a crime,” he wrote, calling the exception “an empty promise.”
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