Idaho’s law requires doctors to treat pregnant women’s health as disposable – and the loss of their lives as an acceptable risk
‘In barring abortions to preserve women’s health, the state forces those women to deteriorate until they are close to death’‘In barring abortions to preserve women’s health, the state forces those women to deteriorate until they are close to death’on Wednesday morning is that it is so sadistic and extreme that people might not believe you. Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country.
This obligation – to intervene in a medical emergency, and to stand between a patient and the maiming, organ failure, or death that may await her in the event of medical inaction – is precisely what the Idaho law prohibits.
The oral arguments that the supreme court heard on the question of whether state abortion bans would be allowed to preempt federal laws protecting women’s access to emergency health care were nominally about the scope and authority of the Emtala law.
And what is at stake, too, is the extremism of the anti-choice movement, whose insistence on criminalizing life- and health-saving abortions can have no explanation other than bloodthirsty sadism.
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