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    What's at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies

    The Supreme Court will consider the question: Should doctors treating pregnancy complications follow state or federal law if the laws conflict? Here's how the case could affect women and doctors.
    by Selena Simmons-Duffin Apr 23, 2024 5 minutes
    The Supreme Court will hear another case about abortion rights on Wednesday. Protestors gathered outside the court last month when the case before the justices involved abortion pills.

    In Idaho, abortion is only legal when a pregnant patient faces death. But a federal law known as EMTALA requires doctors to provide "stabilizing treatment" to patients in the emergency department.

    The Biden administration sees that as a direct conflict, which is why the abortion issue is back – yet again – before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

    The case began just a few weeks after the justices overturned Roe v.in 2022, when the federal Justice Department , arguing that the court should declare that "Idaho's law is invalid" when it comes to emergency abortions because the federal emergency care law preempts the state's abortion ban. So far, a district court agreed with the Biden administration, an appeals court panel agreed with Idaho, and the Supreme Court allowed the strict ban to take effect in January when it agreed to hear the case.

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