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- Janice Hopkins Tanne
- New York
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on 24 April that emergency abortions should be allowed in states with strict abortion bans.
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An emergency abortion is a rare procedure carried out to save a woman’s life or to protect her health. Questions by conservative justices suggested the court might rule against permitting such abortions when it gives its ruling in June or early July.1
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In 2022 the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion and returned regulation to the 50 states, about half of which ban or severely restrict abortions.2
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Idaho’s strict abortion ban shows the continuing conflict between federal law and state law. The US Constitution says that federal law overrides state law. The …
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