https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-emergency-abortion-idaho-fda6b6b8cefd026dea95011dfcf11426?taid=667c4fda6190110001eda36d
The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out.
This is still bullshit.
"Emergency abortions" still give the forced-birthers too much leeway to decide when the mother's life is at risk. A woman should not literally be septic and her organs shutting down before she gets the care she needs.
Who the fuck cares? One state that misrepresented their intentions doesn't help the other 49 under their initial fuckstorm of trying to unravel Roe v Wade.
If it's not universal for all, it's not acceptable. We shouldn't have people stealing away to other states to have basic healthcare like they are bootleggers in the 20's, or aren't capable of making their own fucking healthcare decisions.
This legitimizes the rest of the restrictions by providing them a "well see we allowed actually needed abortions so all the other bans are fine" out for future challenges. Kangaroo's gonna kanga.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Biden administration had sued Idaho, arguing that hospitals must provide abortions to stabilize pregnant patients in rare emergency cases when their health is at serious risk.
Several women have since needed medical airlifts out of state in cases in which abortion is routine treatment to avoid infection, hemorrhage and other dire health risks, Idaho doctors have said.
Already, reports of pregnant women being turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked following the high court’s 2022 ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, according to federal documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit came under a federal law that requires hospitals accepting Medicare to provide stabilizing care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
Nearly all hospitals accept Medicare, so emergency room doctors in Idaho and other states with bans would have to provide abortions if needed to stabilize a pregnant patient and avoid serious health risks like loss of reproductive organs, the Justice Department argued.
Idaho argued that its exception for a patient’s life covers dire health circumstances and that the Biden administration misread the law to circumvent the state ban and expand abortion access.
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Not without un-federalising. Given that generally, red states are net receivers of cash and blue states are net payors, that seems unlikely - TX rhetoric be damned.
Not that I’d begrudge Texas taking Abbot and Costello Paxton and kindly fucking right off, nor would I vote to spill one drop of American blood to keep them by force, of course
But I believe that die is long cast regardless.