Idaho Supreme Court Rules That Strict Abortion Ban Can Take Effect - The New York Times

Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion can go into effect at the end of August while legal challenges to the restrictions are reviewed, the Idaho Supreme Court said in a ruling late Friday.

The Court issued the decision based on three lawsuits filed by a Planned Parenthood chapter and a local doctor this year to block three Idaho laws that were to take effect if the U.S.

The Department of Justice took the rare step of filing its own suit against the state in federal court and has asked for the law to be put on hold.

That lawsuit, the first federal suit filed to try to protect abortion rights, is scheduled to be heard on Aug.

Supreme Court disregarded 50 years of precedent and threw patients across the country into a world of chaos, fear and confusion,” Rebecca Gibron, the acting chief executive of the Planned Parenthood chapter that had filed the suit, said in a statement