The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed the case of Idaho v. United States without making a decision on emergency abortion care, leaving the matter to be decided by lower courts. The ruling allows emergency abortion care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to continue in Idaho for now.
Sabrina Talukder, director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress, commented on the court's action: "Pregnant women in dire medical emergencies bore the life-threatening consequences of the Supreme Court’s procedural 'miscalculations' during the litigation of Idaho v. United States. And although the Supreme Court’s action today provides some degree of relief that medical providers in Idaho can do their job without fear of criminal sanctions, Justice Samuel Alito’s dissenting opinion reveals how extremist justices remain willing to commandeer the judiciary to effectuate their personal anti-abortion ideologies and politicize medicine."
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