Supreme Court to Consider Clash Between Idaho Pro-Life Law and Federal Law

The Biden administration is trying to create a federal right to abortion in a case about emergency health care standards that the Supreme Court will take up on April 24, Idaho’s attorney general and legal experts say.

Specifically, the case is about whether a state law that restricts abortion conflicts with a federal law that forbids “patient dumping,” the practice of hospitals refusing emergency treatment to people who can’t afford to pay for medical services.

The Biden administration says the state law runs afoul of the federal law, which requires that emergency room patients be provided stabilizing care, while Idaho argues the federal law and the state law are not in conflict. Idaho says the federal government is trying to stretch the reach of the federal law to override the state’s abortion law.

The case is coming up as the Supreme Court deliberates another abortion-related appeal, Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which the court heard on March 26. A doctors’ group sued the Food and Drug Administration for loosening regulations pertaining to the abortion pill mifepristone, claiming the relaxation of the rules violates federal law.

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