{"id":307550,"date":"2024-02-23T18:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=307550"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:18:24","slug":"idaho-ag-scotus-stop-forcing-er-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/idaho-ag-scotus-stop-forcing-er-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho AG asks SCOTUS to stop feds from forcing ER doctors to perform abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a>) The Office of the Idaho Attorney General, with the assistance of seasoned Supreme Court litigators from Alliance Defending Freedom and Cooper & Kirk, filed its\u00a0opening brief<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to prevent the Biden administration from misusing federal law to override Idaho\u2019s Defense of Life Act. Idaho\u2019s law protects the lives of women and their unborn children, preventing doctors from performing abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest.<\/p>\n

In August 2022, the Biden administration sued Idaho, claiming that it could use the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act to preempt Idaho\u2019s protections for life and force emergency room doctors to perform abortions that are unlawful in Idaho. But there is no conflict between EMTALA and Idaho\u2019s law as both seek to save lives and neither requires abortions to be performed. After a lower court upheld the Biden administration\u2019s attempt to rewrite EMTALA and prevented Idaho from enforcing its law, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and issued a\u00a0stay<\/a>\u00a0allowing Idaho to continue to protect the lives of women and their unborn children as the litigation continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the portrayal by the media and the Biden administration, both Idaho law and EMTALA share a consistent goal: to protect everyone\u2019s life, including unborn children,\u201d said Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador. \u201cIdaho\u2019s law is perfectly consistent with EMTALA, which provides explicit protections for \u2018unborn children\u2019 in four separate places. The notion that EMTALA requires doctors to perform abortions is absurd. We are asking the Supreme Court to end the administration\u2019s unlawful overreach and to respect the people of Idaho\u2019s decision to protect life.\u201d<\/p>\n