The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit against the State of Idaho on behalf of four women and two doctors who argue patients in need of an abortion to treat an unsafe pregnancy have been harmed by the states near total abortion ban.
KTVB also reports the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians is also listed as a plaintiff on the lawsuit on behalf of their members and patients.
Idaho banned most abortions after the United States Supreme Court restored the right to regulate abortion back to each individual state; exceptions exist for rape with a police report, incest, or a doctor’s medical decision to “prevent the death of the pregnant woman.”
Doctors have said the law’s language is too vague; and they don’t know how close a patient must be to ‘death’ for an abortion to be legal.
Doctors violating Idaho’s abortion ban are subject to losing their medical license, going to jail for up to 5 years, and may be civilly liable for at least $20,000.
