Three liberal justices express skepticism toward Idaho’s arguments for strict abortion ban – live
Supreme court’s liberal minority shows doubt about Idaho’s argument but would need two conservative justices to vote against it in order to be effective
If the justices side with Idaho, Americans could be left with a federal emergency medicine law that is open to exempting disfavored people, conditions and treatments – for example emergencies involving people addicted to opioids, Aids-related emergencies or treatment for gender dysphoria.
Idaho’s quest to exert total control over abortion could also, in the long term, establish legal theory that undermines the federal government’s broader ability to regulate healthcare, the same way exempting the so-called abortion pill, mifepristone, from Food and Drug Administration analysis, would undermine drug regulation.
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