The U.S. Supreme Court will allow emergency abortions to proceed in Idaho, which had banned them even when the pregnancy threatened the life of the mother. The ruling, leaked yesterday, is now official [pdf].
The court did not address the underlying question of whether the federal law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, trumps Idaho's near-total ban in certain circumstances.
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