And idaho state judge (located in the northwest of the United States) has blocked this Wednesday a law whose content prohibited practically all forms of abortion, including those in which the health of the mother was in danger.
The new regulation had been previously appealed by the organization in favor of dignified abortion Planned Parenthood, which requested that the entry into force of the rule be stopped on August 25, alleging that it violates the rights to privacy and equality before the law. But, by three votes in favor and two against, the state Supreme Court denied his request and agreed with the Republican government of Idaho, allowing its application.
The abortion law that they intended to apply in Idaho violates women’s rights and “criminalizes doctors”
The lawsuits and challenges did not stop there and, upon knowing the result of a sentence that, in light of the violates women’s human rightswas the US attorney general Merrick Garland, who announced, this time, a new contest. The lawyer explained that, in addition to an attack on the lives of pregnant women, the new jurisdiction against abortion “criminalizes doctors”.
In this way, the Justice Department sued Idaho for violating the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, to try to protect doctors who have to intervene when abortion is “medical treatment necessary to stabilize a patient’s emergency medical condition” and the magistrate B. Lynn Winmill He agreed with the US government. In essence, the judge has indicated in his brief that Idaho has jurisdiction to legislate on abortion, but that it is limited by health regulations imposed at the federal level.
This is the first action of the central government against a state since last June the Supreme Court annulled the ruling “Roe v. Wade” and thus eliminated federal protection of the right to abortion, yielding its legislation to the states. And, predictably, it will not be the only one. The working group on reproductive rights created as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, according to sources in the Biden administration, is dedicating itself to evaluating “the changing landscape of state laws” and is already “additional litigation” against other states being studied.