Today: SCOTUS Hears Case On “Emergency Abortions”

SCOTUSblog reports:

Less than a month after the justices heard oral arguments in a case seeking to roll back access to one of the drugs used in medication abortions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in another case involving abortion. At issue in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States is whether emergency rooms in Idaho can provide abortions to pregnant women in an emergency.

The Biden administration contends that a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act can in some narrow circumstances trump a state law that criminalizes most abortions in the state. The state rejects the government’s interpretation of EMTALA as “an exercise of raw executive power,” while its Republican legislature condemns it as “an intolerable federal power grab.”

Read the full article. The case has national implications.

Emergency abortion care is before the Supreme Court—and blue states should be very worried https://t.co/1FGuXk1qMk

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 24, 2024

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that pits Idaho’s near-total abortion ban against a federal law that the Biden administration says requires hospitals to offer emergency abortion care in certain situations. https://t.co/AJru3zQ9zr

— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 24, 2024