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Biden DOJ Sues Idaho Over "Near-Total Ban" On Abortion

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden

The lawsuit - which marks the DOJ's 1st challenge since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer, argues that Idaho's law would violate the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which says that hospitals receiving Medicare funds "must provide medical treatment necessary to stabilize that condition before transferring or discharging the patient," according to Tuesday's filing.

"The Idaho law would make it a criminal offense for doctors to comply with EMTALA's requirement to provide stabilizing treatment, even where a doctor determines that abortion is the medical treatment necessary to prevent a patient from suffering severe health risks or even death," it continues.

Idaho's law does allow for exceptions for rape or incest which has been reported to police prior to the abortion, and the state will not prosecute physicians who perform abortions in "good faith medical judgement and based on the facts known" to save a woman's life, Just the News reports.

The DOJ, however, decries the law as a "near-total ban" in their filing.


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