Women suing Idaho after they were denied abortions will tell their stories in court
The lawsuit alleges that Idaho’s laws violate pregnant people’s rights to safety and equal protection, as well as physicians’ rights to practice medicine under the state constitution. It asks the court to declare that physicians in Idaho can provide abortion care in three specific scenarios:
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- A pregnant person has a medical complication that makes it unsafe to continue a pregnancy or poses a risk of infection or bleeding.
- A pregnant person has an underlying medical condition that is made worse by pregnancy, cannot be treated effectively or requires recurrent, invasive intervention.
- A fetus is unlikely to survive the pregnancy or birth.
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Idaho abortion trial to hear from women denied medically necessary abortions
“This has got to be better. This just cannot continue to happen to people,” Jen Adkins, the lead plaintiff in the case, recently told the Guardian. Adkins was denied an abortion in Idaho after learning that she was likely to miscarry and that continuing her pregnancy could endanger her health.
“I want people to know how these bans affect real people in real life, because I guarantee you that everybody has somebody in their life that this similar type of thing has happened to. And if they don’t know somebody, it’s just because that person does not feel safe enough to share.”
Read more at The Guardian