BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments In Major Idaho Abortion Ban Case

On Wednesday, The Supreme Court heard a consolidated case regarding emergency abortion healthcare.

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The argument that EMTALA doesn't cover illegal procedures is spurious when the sole purpose of banning the procedure is to create a situation where certain people suffer.

[PKing-pxdg]

Everyone has the right to deny medical treatment, no one has the right to deny medical treatment for other's! Period!

[tomw.]

As if just living in Idaho wasn't bad enough.

[DragonSlayer-iiww]

Why can't they just ignore abortion like they ignore school shooting!

[afrocraft]

Lawyers, five of them who have never been pregnant, are trying to decide when a pregnant woman is dying _enough_ to qualify for a legal abortion. Bonkers.

[agresseur]

The alive woman citizen is in every single case the primary and uttermost holder of ALL rights to life. There can be no doubting that any decision no matter how small or perceived fault that saves the alive citizen's life is just. The medical team in a decision here is considered totally and completely infallible. They can never be questioned or otherwise legally doubted or sued in a feint of harm to an mass of cells unfit for life. Just like the woman seeking the abortion cannot be prosecuted so should any Emergency Room Doctor and supporting Hospital be sued or prosecuted for providing Emergency care despite the existence of a fetus at any stage of gestation.

[joeburgess]

I beg to differ with justice Alito that Idaho and the other states that have restricted abortion rights care about either the mother or fetus. If the states did care they would be providing care for at risk fetuses and by extension the mother. I fully believe that in most of these tragic cases the mother wants the baby to go to term. If the states cared for either the mother or the fetus they would be offering intensive care treatment for them but they just send the mother and fetus away to wait for the situation to become more dire which doesn’t treat either mother or fetus. I think we all know that the hospital, state, lawyer and insurance company know treatment would be very expensive and result in a very sad miscarriage. Nobody in the above list wants to pay those huge costs.

[mariaespiritu]

It’s funny that justice Thomas says that the Idaho lawyer was provided some cases and asked to make a snap judgement, but this is what doctors are being asked to do in real time in Idaho and these other red states. Make snap decisions and take into consideration risking mother’s life or possibly going to jail. How can anyone practice medicine this way?

[MrDuane-lrdm]

Are you worried about your health?
Is your doctor telling you there's a high chance of injury? or possibly death in the near future?
Then ask your state legislator what medical treatment is right for you.

[porscheoscar]

"Abortion is between a woman and her doctor. Period." H. Ross Perot on Larry King Live 1992

[rhyslucero]

The complication is that there are two people involved in abortion, not one. The rights of both people must be considered. We know that in some sense Rights are gained by sentience. So as we age and develop, we gain Rights. Children may be spanked, teens can drive, adults can vote, at certain ages people can run for office. The question is, "at what stage of sentience do people gain the Right to Life?"

[googlandroid]

Idaho and the majority are wholly disingenuous. Clearly, even with the "good faith" provision, the law is chilling. This is already known from many actual incidents across the country.

[nappybiscuit]

I can't wait to hear the presidential immunity case. It should be fun.

[jamapx]

Katanji Brown-Jackson should be a magistrate in some backwater traffic court.

[xrn]

Kagan is by far the most competent of the liberal justices on the court. It's so striking when you hear her in contrast to Jackson.

[fxhnd]

1:08:00 how is there no president of Mental health as a qualifying condition?

The Idaho lawyer said the psych board outlined abortion explicitly that abortion can be the standard of care in certain situations . 🤷🏻‍♂️

[lolathesurbelle]

Alito and Thomas are the worst, they need to leave the SCOTUS. I love justices Jackson and Sotomayor!

[xrn]

Jackson's conception of federal power is frighteningly broad. I'm 100% pro-choice but even in this case she says crazy stuff.

[cottonp]

Bottom line is that IF a person is in the hospital with a life threatening problem and they are pregnant and the only way to ensure that the person lives that the pregnancy is terminated that IS a reasonable solution!
But if the person went to the hospital with NO medical emergency other than being pregnant is NOT a good reason for the procedure!
The fact that the baby( fetus) IS a living creature in every respect, IT has the right to be considered to have IT'S life be just as important as the person who is pregnant, EVERY single attempt to save the baby(fetus)IS required
I don't hear anything about that in this argument!

[jasonschulz]

Use all your big words that a person that doesn't have the books you read you can't make it more understandable to the average person.