The conflict, as the government points out, is that the law requires doctors to perform an emergency abortion if necessary to prevent a patient\u2019s condition from deteriorating or to protect her from potentially severe or permanent injury. Idaho law forbids an abortion unless it\u2019s necessary to avert a patient\u2019s death. Doctors caught in this vise are in effect being told that they must allow a pregnant woman\u2019s condition to deteriorate until she is near death before they can act.<\/p>\n
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