Federal Judge’s Order Allowing an Idaho Doctor to Perform Certain Abortions Is Put on Hold

Federal judge’s order allowing an Idaho doctor to perform certain abortions is put on hold

A panel of judges has placed on hold a federal court order protecting an Idaho fetal medicine doctor from prosecution for abortions performed in specific circumstances.  The order means Idaho’s abortion laws are fully in effect, with only exemptions to protect the life of the mother, or in cases of rape and incest in the […]

Idaho court ruling expanding abortion access put on hold by higher court

BOISE — Litigation of Idaho’s abortion law continues after a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals filing on Thursday paused an Idaho federal court ruling on the constitutionality of Idaho’s abortion ban.

Appeals Court Rules Idaho Can Enforce Abortion Ban to Protect Babies

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday issued a temporary stay allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on most abortions while the state appeals a lower-court order from a liberal judge who tried to create a right to abortion. The appeals court ruling is a decision Attorney General Raúl Labrador said means unborn […]

A judge expanded abortion access in Idaho last month. Another court paused his decision

A federal appeals court has paused a decision that would have prevented Idaho officials from enforcing the state’s abortion ban against a specific doctor when pregnancy threatened a woman’s health or put her at risk for death from self-harm.The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered a stay of an injunction that U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, of the District of Idaho, created last month when he issued his decision in a case brough…