Federal Trial Starts for Idaho Doctor Seeking Medical Exemptions to Abortion Ban
Dr. Stacy Seyb says the law can carry felony charges and up to five years in prison for doctors who provide abortions outside narrow exceptions.
- In Boise, maternal fetal medicine specialist Stacy Seyb is challenging Idaho's near-total abortion ban in federal court, with Federal Judge Lynn Winmill presiding over the trial that began on Monday.
- Idaho's current statutes allow abortions only to prevent the death of the mother, creating what the Lawyering Project termed a 'real moral hazard' for physicians facing felony charges and up to five years in prison.
- Seyb testified he frequently refers patients with renal failure and placental abnormalities to Utah, arguing the law blocks care for patients at risk of suicide or still-birth.
- Idaho Attorney General Labrador maintains that the Constitution provides no right to abortion, asserting that states hold exclusive authority to decide policy because abortion is not 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history.'
- The trial is expected to continue until Friday, June 12, as Idaho faces significant provider shortages following the bans, with a study finding the state lost more than a third of its obstetrician doctors last year.
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Federal court holds trial in lawsuit challenging constitutionality of Idaho’s abortion ban
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Federal court holds trial in lawsuit challenging constitutionality of Idaho's abortion ban
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Federal trial starts for Idaho doctor seeking medical exemptions to abortion ban - Stateline Publications
The James A. McClure Federal Building in Boise is the largest of Idaho's federal courthouses. (Otto Kitsinger for Idaho Capital Sun)Since Idaho’s abortion bans took effect almost four years ago, an Idaho doctor says he’s had to send patients out of state for medically necessary abortions for a range of pregnancy complications under which he used to be able to provide abortions. Dr. Stacy Seyb, who treats high-risk pregnancies as a maternal fetal…
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