Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, Bloomberg report says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out, according to Bloomberg News, which said a copy of the opinion was briefly posted Wednesday on the court’s website.

The document suggests the court will find that it should not have gotten involved in the case so quickly and, by a 6-3 vote, will reinstate a lower court order that had allowed hospitals in the state to perform emergency abortions to protect a pregnant patient’s health, Bloomberg said.

Such an outcome would leave the issues at the heart of the case unresolved, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a concurrence that it leaves key questions unanswered.

“Today’s decision is not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho. It is delay,” she wrote.

The Supreme Court acknowledged that a document was inadvertently posted Wednesday. That document was quickly removed.

“The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website. The Court’s opinion in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States will be issued in due course,” court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said in a statement.

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