What\u2019s at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies<\/p>\n
The case, known as Moyle v. United States<\/em><\/a>(Mike Moyle is the speaker of the Idaho House), has major implications on everything from what emergency care is available in states with abortion bans to how hospitals operate in Idaho. Here’s a summary of what’s at stake.<\/p>\n Read more at National Public Radio, Inc. <\/a><\/p>\n Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Ban One Specific Type of Emergency Care<\/p>\n Since the Supreme Court allowed the law to take effect, Idaho\u2019s largest hospital has airlifted at least six women<\/a> out-of-state because of pregnancy complications \u2014 presumably to receive care that doctors don\u2019t feel comfortable providing under Idaho law. If pregnancy-related air transports continue at that rate, the number could reach 20 from that one hospital alone by the end of the year. Last year, before the law went into effect, just one woman was transported for similar reasons.<\/p>\n Read more at Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n Patients are being denied emergency abortions. Courts can only do so much.<\/p>\n Doctors say they fear that following their medical judgment could cost them their license or land them in jail. And they argue that broader exemptions and clearer guidelines would help but not fully solve the problem, as they believe any limit on abortion restricts their ability to make judgment calls in time-sensitive situations. Absent the freedom to make those decisions without fear of being second-guessed in court, many providers are waiting until patients are on the verge of death to perform abortions.<\/p>\n Read more at Politico<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What\u2019s at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies The case, known as Moyle v. United States(Mike Moyle is the speaker of the Idaho House), has major implications on everything from what emergency care is available in states with abortion bans to how hospitals operate in Idaho. Here’s a summary … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,104,42,90,99,318,200,177],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emtala","tag-fetal-personhood","tag-idaho","tag-maternal-death-rates","tag-maternity-deserts","tag-moyle","tag-ob-gyn","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}