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August 25, 2022

Federal Judge Blocks Part of Idaho's "Trigger Ban" Criminalizing Abortion Care
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A federal judge has blocked portions of Idaho's trigger ban on abortion
from taking effect. On Wednesday, District Judge B. Lynn Winmill struck
down a provision of Idaho's law making it a crime for a doctor to
provide abortion care to a pregnant person facing medical emergency.
Federal law requires hospitals participating in Medicare to provide
abortions when a person's life is at risk.

The remainder of Idaho's near-total abortion ban takes effect today -
the same day that trigger bans affecting millions of people also go into
effect in Texas and Tennessee. Two months after the Supreme Court struck
down Roe v. Wade, one in three U.S. women don't have access to abortion
in their states.


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