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The Quickie: SCOTUS Allows Idaho To Outlaw Emergency Abortion Care Required By Federal Law, Case To Be Heard in April

For Immediate Release: Jan. 8, 2024


Welcome to “The Quickie” — Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s daily tipsheet on the top health care & reproductive rights stories of the day. You can read “The Quickie'' online here.

In today’s Quickie: SCOTUS allows Idaho to outlaw emergency abortion care required by federal law.

SCOTUS ALLOWS IDAHO TO OUTLAW EMERGENCY ABORTION CARE REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW, CASE TO BE HEARD IN APRIL: On Friday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Idaho to enforce its abortion ban even when it conflicts with EMTALA, which could prevent an Idaho hospital provider from providing an abortion to stabilize a patient experiencing a medical emergency when EMTALA requires that care. In an extraordinary move, the Supreme Court also agreed to decide the case before the lower federal court of appeals had decided the case, with oral arguments to take place in April 2024.

As Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawai‘i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky CEO Rebecca Gibron explained, “The fact of the matter is that either lawmakers are unaware of the impact the abortion ban in Idaho is having or they are willfully ignoring it – neither of those options are acceptable. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Idahoans deserve better care than this. For the health and livelihood of our patients, we will not sit and watch while people are continually put in grave danger during their pregnancy.”

Read more from the Idaho Statesman here and read PPFA’s statement here.

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