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Despite the State of Idaho having a near total ban on abortions, the Supreme Court has ruled that doctors in the state must be allowed to provide "emergency abortions" in order to give "stabilizing treatments" to patients in critical condition.
Idaho's law barring most abortions did already have exceptions in cases where the life of the mother was at risk, but the Justice Department argued that the state's law didn't go far enough to allow abortions in emergency situations.
Idaho argued that "construing EMTALA as a federal abortion mandate raises grave questions under the major questions doctrine that affect both Congress and this Court." Other supporters of Idaho's abortion laws have accused the Biden administration of using the DOJ to subvert states' rights.