Idaho Supreme Court Decides Not to Block Near-Total Abortion Ban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : During oral arguments in the case last week, an attorney for Planned Parenthood and Gustafson told the high court that the abortion bans' exceptions for saving a patient's life are so vague that they are impossible to follow.
45% : Dr. Caitlin Gustafson -- an abortion provider in Idaho -- and Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky filed three lawsuits over each of the three Idaho abortion laws.
44% : Justice John Stegner, joined by Justice Colleen Zahn, in a partial dissent referred to abortion as a "fundamental right" of a woman to "exercise her right to bodily autonomy and health to terminate the pregnancy."
42% : In the case of rape or incest, the victim must have reported the crimes to law enforcement, and be able to provide a copy of a police report.
42% : The measure also has exceptions -- in cases where abortion was deemed necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, or in cases due to rape or incest.
42% :"[W]hat Petitioners are asking this court to ultimately do is to declare a right to abortion under the Idaho constitution when -- on its face -- there is none," Brody wrote.
41% : The court said that "complex legal questions" must be answered and that "given the legal history of Idaho, we cannot simply infer such a right [to abortion] exists absent Roe without breaking new legal ground, which should only occur after the matter is finally submitted on the merits."
40% : The Idaho Supreme Court on Friday said it will not block a trigger law that bans nearly all abortions in the state slated to take effect Aug. 25, as well as a separate law that bans abortion after about six weeks set to take effect Aug. 19, amid ongoing litigation.
38% : Planned Parenthood had filed a lawsuit challenging the fetal heartbeat bill on July 25.
37% : Planned Parenthood on June 27 challenged the Idaho trigger law and asked the Idaho Supreme Court to block it from taking effect.
29% : Justice Robyn Brody, joined by Chief Justice Richard Bevan and Justice Gregory Moeller in the majority, wrote that given the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on June 24 that overturned Roe, Planned Parenthood could not show it was entitled to such "drastic" relief, particularly since before Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion was illegal in Idaho.
25% : The Idaho Supreme Court majority also said that Planned Parenthood and Gustafson also failed to show that allowing enforcement of the Idaho laws would cause "irreparable harm."
19% : Brad Little signed the civil enforcement mechanism into law in March, the Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocked it in April, in response to a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood.

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