By Lindsay Whitehurst and Rebecca Boone
Washington (AP) – Trump administration moved Wednesday to abandon an emergency abortion in Idaho in one of the first measures of the administration on the issue since President Donald Trump took office.
The Ministry of Justice has filed a request for rejection of the prosecution of the Biden administration in a reversal which could have national implications for urgent care.
The case had argued that doctors in the emergency room dealing with pregnant women had to offer layoffs if necessary to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.
The democratic administration had given similar councils to the country’s hospitals following the 2022 Supreme Court decision canceling the right to abortion. It is disputed in other conservative states. In Idaho, the State argued that its law authorizes vital abortions and that the Biden administration was wrong to expand the exceptions.
The doctors of Idaho, on the other hand, say that it is not difficult to know which abortion is legal, forcing them to have the state pregnant women notified if a dismissal could be part of the standard of care. It is not clear in rapidly evolving emergencies if complications in pregnancy could ultimately prove to be fatal, doctors said in court documents.
A judge prevented the Idaho from any application of the abortion prohibition which would modify the emergency treatment in the largest hospital system of the State for the moment.
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