Idaho, a rural and conservative state of the American West, was among the first to acquire a new law after the flip-flop, at the end of June, of the Supreme Court of the United States on the right to abortion. The text, which remains very restrictive, comes into force Thursday.
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This is a victory for the Biden administration, two months after the judgment of the high court of June 24, which buried the constitutional right of the Americans to obtain an interruption of pregnancy. An American federal judge blocked on Wednesday August 24, a Part of the law prohibiting almost all abortions in Idaho (northwest). Thus, the State will not be able to continue doctors who practice a voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) to protect the health of women, decided judge Barry Lynn Winmill . This suspension will continue until the end of legal action contesting the prohibition of abortion, he added.
Idaho, a rural and conservative state of the American West, was among the first to acquire a new law after the flip-flop of the United States Supreme Court on the right to Abortion at the end of June. The text, very restrictive, which allows abortions only to save the life of a pregnant woman, comes into force Thursday.
The Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, had asked the justice to block this law, claiming that she raped a federal law on medical emergencies since she did not provide for no exception in the event of “serious danger for The health “of pregnant women and authorized prosecution against doctors.
In his decision, judge Barry Lynn Winmill, appointed in 1995 by Bill Clinton, stressed that this case “does not bring the constitutional right to abortion”. “This court does not have to decide this broader, deeper issue,” he wrote. “But the Court is called upon to solve a much more modest problem, namely if the Idaho law on abortion is conflict with a small but important part of federal legislation. This is the case”, continued Mr. Winmill.
Even if it is limited to a specific point, the decision constitutes a success – although relative – for the administration of Joe Biden. It “makes it possible to ensure that women in Idaho will receive emergency medical care to which they are entitled according to federal law,” welcomed the minister Merrick Garland, Wednesday, in a press release . >
A dozen states have already banished abortions on their soil and, in the long term, half of the 50 states should do so. The inhabitants of Kansas, the conservative state of the Midwest, rejected by referendum a proposal aimed at suppressing the right to abortion included in the constitution of kansas.
