{"id":307973,"date":"2024-03-06T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=307973"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:06:54","slug":"national-pro-life-supreme-court-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/national-pro-life-supreme-court-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"National pro-life group asks US Supreme Court to back Idaho pro-life law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) filed<\/a> an amicus brief last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a mandate by the Biden administration that could force emergency room doctors to commit abortions.<\/p>\n

In August 2022, the Department of Justice sued<\/a> the state of Idaho, saying its Defense of Life Act, which protects preborn children from abortion, violates the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). The DOJ claims that EMTALA requires emergency rooms to commit abortions which are illegal under Idaho law. Despite this claim, as Alliance Defending Freedom reports<\/a>, “[T]here is no conflict between EMTALA and Idaho\u2019s law as both seek to save lives and neither requires abortions to be performed.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIdaho\u2019s law is perfectly consistent with EMTALA, which provides explicit protections for \u2018unborn children\u2019 in four separate places,” explained Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador. “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