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Biden administration lawsuit challenges Idaho’s prohibition of most abortions

Updated: August 3, 2022 at 6:57 pm EST  See Comments

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(LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Idaho’s ban on most abortions as part of its efforts to force states to continue allowing abortions since the U.S. Supreme Court expressly affirmed and restored states’ discretion to set their own abortion policies.

In 2020, Idaho adopted a “trigger law” that would ban all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or threats to a mother’s life, which would not go into effect until the nation’s highest court overturned Roe v. Wade, as happened in June. Under the law, abortionists could face five years in prison and suspension of their medical licenses.

In the majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court wrote that the U.S. Constitution “makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision,” and therefore it was time to “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

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