{"id":329694,"date":"2025-04-15T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=329694"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T05:14:46","slug":"idaho-ag-partial-victory-judge-exceptions-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/idaho-ag-partial-victory-judge-exceptions-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho AG claims partial victory as judge issues ruling on abortion law exceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Idaho judge has issued a ruling expanding medical exceptions in a law protecting preborn children from abortion, though the law itself will remain in place.<\/p>\n

Judge Jason D. Scott said<\/a> in his ruling that abortions must be permitted in an emergency if the woman is more likely to die without it than she is with it, even if her death is “neither imminent nor assured.\u201d This decision was in response to a lawsuit, Adkins v. the State of Idaho<\/a><\/em>, in which the Center for Reproductive Rights sued on behalf of four plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

Despite broadening the medical exemptions, Scott didn’t grant a total victory to the plaintiffs. He refused to allow abortions due to fetal disability or defect, when doctors said the preborn child would not survive the pregnancy, which Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador hailed<\/a> as a victory, saying, “While we still disagree with portions of the ruling, it confirms what my office has argued in courts from Boise to Washington, D.C. \u2014 that Idaho\u2019s abortion laws are constitutional and protect both unborn children and their mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n

All four plaintiffs were women who sought abortions not because their lives were in imminent danger, but because their preborn children had been diagnosed with disabilities<\/a>. The Center for Reproductive Rights claimed these diagnoses put the women at risk of developing conditions like pre-eclampsia, which could potentially put their lives at risk, even though there were no<\/em> indications that any of the women actually had<\/em> pre-eclampsia or any other pregnancy-related medical conditions. As Dr. Jeffrey Wright, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, previously explained<\/a> to Live Action News, “All pregnancies involve some risk of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia.\u201d<\/p>\n