Top 10 Scenarios Under Which Idaho Legislators Would Allow an Abortion
FOTP Friday List for . . . April 26th, 2024
Idaho's Defense of Life Act, which took effect in August 2022, prohibits nearly all abortions, with exceptions for reported cases of rape or incest or when "necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman." The Biden administration sued the state, claiming its law conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986, which requires emergency room physicians at hospitals that receive Medicare funds to offer "stabilizing treatment" to all patients whose health is in jeopardy.The justices will decide whether EMTALA, which does not specifically address abortion, preempts Idaho's abortion ban and similar measures in 20 other states, protecting a doctor's ability to terminate a pregnancy in an emergency situation if care requires it.
When a husband of a pregnant woman takes a well-liked, respected, irreplaceable hospital administrator hostage and threatens to kill him or her unless his wife gets the procedure.
When three fundamentalist Idahoan legislators independently hear from God that the mother’s life is, indeed, in danger.
When the woman seeking the abortion is impregnated by a Republican officeholder who has a wife and family and is a good family man.
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