In conservative Idaho, it's expected that abortion will be banned eventually, but abortion rights advocates are continuing their legal challenges.
Wednesday, lawyers representing a physician and the regional Planned Parenthood affiliate will be before the Idaho Supreme Court asking the justices to block enforcement of three laws intended to restrict abortion.
Abortion rights groups, which have spent decades in courts trying to preserve access, are continuing the fight even in places such as Idaho, where they're unlikely to prevail in the long run. And in Louisiana, there were about 610 abortions per month in 2021. With the shifting status, 249 were reported from June 24 through July 29. While that's far fewer than normal in that period, the legal fight did allow some patients access.
The total abortion ban would allow health care providers to be charged with a crime even if the abortion is the only way to save their patient's life - but the health care providers could then try to defend themselves in court with evidence that the procedure was necessary because of an immediate medical emergency.
The Idaho Legislature and the Idaho Attorney General's Office have countered that it is in the state's best interest to prohibit abortion and that the Legislature has the right to enact anti-abortion legislation. Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's office has also argued that abortion rights advocates should take their fight to the ballot box, not the courts.
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