{"id":819,"date":"2024-01-13T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=819"},"modified":"2024-01-17T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T06:38:13","slug":"politics_detail_6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=819","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS_DETAIL_6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">POLITICS<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\"><strong>JANUARY 6, 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SCOTUS Allows One of America\u2019s Strictest Abortion Bans to Take Effect\u2014For Now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Idaho\u2019s abortion law has sparked confusion and fear among doctors and patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/MogensenJackie_2_450px.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-822 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SCOTUS-idaho-1-6-24.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" style=\"width:922px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SCOTUS-idaho-1-6-24.webp 321w, https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/SCOTUS-idaho-1-6-24-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>zz\/STRF\/STAR MAX\/IPx<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Idaho has among&nbsp;<\/strong>the strictest abortion bans in the country. It\u2019s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued the state,&nbsp;arguing&nbsp;that it violates a federal law regulating medical emergencies. The legal battle went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which&nbsp;said on Friday&nbsp;that Idaho\u2019s law could go into effect\u2014at least until the court reviews the case in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Idaho, it\u2019s illegal to perform an abortion\u2014punishable by&nbsp;up to five years&nbsp;in prison\u2014except when \u201cnecessary to prevent the death of a pregnant woman.\u201d&nbsp;But doctors have faced confusion over when, if ever, they can step in to perform emergency abortions: What if, as US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar&nbsp;poses, a patient\u2019s condition isn\u2019t life-threatening, but could become so? How long are doctors supposed to watch their patients\u2019 conditions deteriorate before stepping in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoctors in Idaho are afraid,\u201d Julie Lyons, a family physician who sued the state over the law,&nbsp;told&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Idaho Capital Sun<\/em>&nbsp;in December. \u201cWe are afraid to provide simple obstetric care because of the fear that what we do with our patient could lead to prosecution.\u201d Similarly, an Idaho OB\/GYN&nbsp;told&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;following the court\u2019s decision on Friday, \u201cI could take care of a patient in [a life-threatening] scenario tomorrow\u2014and now I have to wait for months to figure out what I can do. It just makes me question what I am doing in this state anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just Idaho. As my colleague Madison Pauly&nbsp;wrote&nbsp;in July 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>      The ambiguity in Wisconsin\u2019s state abortion ban, for instance, has left doctors like Abigail Cutler, an OBGYN in Wisconsin, in an impossible bind.   Wisconsin\u2019s law,&nbsp;written in 1849, allows abortions to \u201csave the life of the mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     \u201cWhere\u2019s that line?\u201d Cutler asks. \u201cHow close does a patient need to be? On the brink of death for me to step in and intervene? What if I wait too long and she dies in front of me? Or what if in the eyes of some prosecutor who\u2019s not a doctor, not at the bedside, not staring at the patient bleeding or infected in front of them\u2014to them, what if I intervene too soon, and I\u2019m charged and risk going to prison?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s liberal-leaning Supreme Court&nbsp;could soon hear arguments&nbsp;over that state\u2019s law. The Idaho case has been working its way through the federal courts since&nbsp;August 2022, when the Biden administration alleged Idaho was violating&nbsp;the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which&nbsp;requires hospitals&nbsp;to treat and stabilize patients in medical emergencies.&nbsp;According to the Biden administration, that includes emergency abortion care. As my former colleague Abigail Weinberg&nbsp;noted&nbsp;at the time, the 2022 lawsuit was the administration\u2019s first legal attempt to rein in a state\u2019s abortion restrictions following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to end the right to abortion in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe overturning of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade&nbsp;<\/em>has enabled Republican elected officials to pursue dangerous abortion bans like this one that continue to jeopardize women\u2019s health, force them to travel out of state for care, and make it harder for doctors to provide care, including in an emergency,\u201d the White House&nbsp;said in a statement&nbsp;on Friday. \u201cThese bans are also forcing doctors to leave Idaho and other states because of laws that interfere with their ability to care for their patients. This should never happen in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the question of whether federal law requires abortion to be truly available in emergency cases is in the hands of the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court\u2014the same justices, I needn\u2019t remind you, who overturned&nbsp;<em>Roe&nbsp;<\/em>nearly two years ago. In the meantime, the law in Idaho and elsewhere couldn\u2019t be more murky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUS Allows One of America\u2019s Strictest Abortion Bans to Take Effect\u2014For Now JACKIE FLYNN MOGENSEN Reporter Idaho has among&nbsp;the strictest abortion bans in the country. It\u2019s so strict, in fact, that in 2022, the Biden administration sued the state,&nbsp;arguing&nbsp;that it violates a federal law regulating medical emergencies. The legal battle went all the way up&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/?page_id=819\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLITICS_DETAIL_6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":436,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/819\/revisions\/897"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiecasia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}