Washington (AP) – The Trump government signaled on Tuesday that Idaho will enforce its strict abortion ban in treating pregnant women with medical emergencies, a dramatic reversal of the previous administration in a closely observed lawsuit.
The Ministry of Justice said that it would be rejected by the case originally rejected by the Biden administration, according to court files, which were submitted by the state’s largest hospital network.
It could come until the St. Luke health system wrote in a court registration on Wednesday.
Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion laws of the nation. The hospital has previously announced that the laws have forced them to fly women from the state for emergency care.
Falling the case would be one of the first major steps of the fresh government in abortion. During his first term, the Republican President Donald Trump appointed many of the judges of the Supreme Court, who voted to abolish the right to abortion in 2022. Since then, the problem is to be left to the states.
Complaints that pregnant women were rejected by the US emergency shots who were rejected after ripping Roe v. Wade were tense, the federal documents showed how they could be legally available.
The submission of St. Luke’s came on Tuesday when the hospital applied for a court decision that enables doctors to continue to provide abortions in emergency situations as they consider it necessary.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice and Idaho officer did not immediately answer inquiries about comments.
In its original lawsuit against Idaho, the bidges administration argued that the Federal Act had to oblige doctors to carry out abortions in emergency situations if the health or life of a patient was seriously at risk – even if pregnancy could end to end the state’s abortion ban.
Idaho has pushed back and said that his state law enables abortions in life -threatening situations and that the democratic government has tried not to properly expand its exceptions.
The Supreme Court entered the case of Idaho last year and finally entered a close decision that enabled hospitals to continue to carry out the emergency rooms as necessary.
However, the High Court did not solve any significant legal questions in the case, and it was argued before the 9th US Court of Appeals in December. The Court of Appeal has not yet decided.
In the United States, around 50,000 people in the United States develop life -threatening pregnancy complications, including severe blood loss, sepsis or loss of reproductive organs. In occasional cases, doctors may have to end pregnancy in order to protect the pregnant person’s health, especially in cases where there is no chance of a fetus.
Before the court prevented the state from enforcing the ban on health-threatening emergencies, some Idaho doctors reported that pregnant women were exposed to delays in care and in some cases in hospitals outside the state for treatment, which they had previously received at home.
Most of the states controlled by Republicans have started enforcing fresh bans or restrictions since 2022. At the moment, 12 countries are enforcing bans for abortion in all pregnancy stages, with narrow exceptions, and four have bans that occur in pregnancy in or about six weeks before women are pregnant.
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Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press author, contributed to this report. Boone reported from Seattle.
