Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced Thursday his office is appealing a recent federal court ruling allowing abortions to protect the mother’s health or prevent her death from self-harm. Labrador is asking a federal appeals court to block the decision, allowing the near-total abortion ban to be enforced as written. Labrador argued that U.S. District […]
Pregnant women may receive abortions in many cases if there are serious risks to their health or if there’s a high risk she will harm herself, an Idaho federal judge has ruled. The decision, released Thursday, marks a major change to the Idaho abortion ban’s exemptions. The judge determined U.S. constitutional protections under the Due […]
Dr. Kylie Cooper, a maternal-fetal medicine physician, practices in Minnesota after she left Idaho in the spring of 2023, shortly after Idaho’s criminal abortion ban went into effect. Although it has been nearly three years since she left, Cooper retained her Idaho medical license, she said. “I have a sliver of hope that maybe things […]
Idaho state election officials are asking the public to weigh in on a proposed ballot initiative to end the state’s strict abortion ban. The Idaho Secretary of State’s Office will feature some arguments in favor and against the ballot initiative on a voter pamphlet that it mails to all Idaho households ahead of the Nov. […]
Three women who spoke publicly about seeking abortions amid fatal fetal diagnoses while living in Idaho are among a group demanding an anti-abortion website retract its “defamatory” statements made about them. Attorneys from an abortion-rights legal group called Amplify Legal sent a letter on July 15 to the anti-abortion advocacy website Live Action for posts […]