“No real clarity”: Supreme Court emergency abortion decision leaving Idaho physicians in the dark

Cadwallader added that issues like OBGYNs leaving the state and patients being airlifted to out-of-state hospitals will remain. “I think we’re going to see the transfers continue to happen,” she said. “I think we’re going to continue to lose OBGYNs and other doctors in our state.” Read more at Salon  

Abortion bans still leave a ‘gray area’ for doctors after Idaho Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court’s abortion ruling on Thursday is a narrow one that applies only to Idaho and sends a case back down to the appeals court. Confusion among doctors in states that have strict abortion bans remains widespread. Read more at National Public Radio, Inc.

Supreme Court ruling – Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States (EMTALA case)

SCOTUS Sheepishly Admits It Shouldn’t Have Taken Emergency Abortion Case The embarrassing reversal — which was accidentally disclosed a day early when it was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the Supreme Court’s website — plainly indicated a growing rift at the court: the three liberal justices, who see this case as a very simple one; three … Read more

The Supreme Court Ruling on Mifepristone: A temporary win for abortion rights, and a road map for future anti-abortion litigation

The anti-abortion wins buried in the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling against them Yet tucked in the pages of the unanimous ruling were potentially useful hints for abortion opponents, laying out a path to mount similar challenges to the medication in the future and limit abortion access in other ways. Read more at Politico Supreme Court … Read more

US supreme court unanimously upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone

The abortion opponents claimed that, if the FDA’s current regulations of mifepristone were allowed to remain, anti-abortion doctors could suffer harm if they have to treat women who experience complications from mifepristone. But in Thursday’s majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected that argument, ruling that the anti-abortion activists did not prove that they had the … Read more

The Supreme Court is poised to take one of Biden’s few tools on abortion access

No matter how the high court rules, medical groups say there will continue to be widespread fear and confusion in states with abortion bans about whether and when they can treat patients in emergencies, noting that the stories of Texas patient Kate Cox and Indiana OB-GYN Caitlin Bernard have especially fueled the chilling effect. Read … Read more

Why is the “Right to Contraception Act” considered necessary?

Regarding a 2022 version of the bill, some Republican politicians, including Florida Rep. Kat Cammack, said the legislation is not necessary, calling it a fear-mongering technique led by the Democratic Party. However, Justice Clarence Thomas said in 2022 that the Supreme Court should revisit and overrule past landmark decisions, including Griswold v. Connecticut. Read more … Read more

America braces as supreme court to hand down rulings on raft of key issues

For Manian, the confluence of the pair of abortion cases underlines two critical truths: that the anti-abortion movement will not stop until it has achieved a total abortion ban nationwide, and that by tearing up the right to an abortion, the supreme court has created a legal mess that is likely to dog it for … Read more