The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether emergency room doctors can perform medically necessary abortions in states that prohibit them, bypassing the court of appeals to resolve on an expedited basis a lawsuit brought by the United States against Idaho.
Idaho's Defense of Life Act is a near total ban on abortion, but there is an exception to prevent the mother's death. The law imposes penalties on doctors who perform prohibited abortions unless the physician determined in good faith medical judgement and based on the facts known to the physician at the time, that the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.
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