Supreme Court Set To Allow Emergency Abortion Care In Idaho: Report

The Supreme Court is set to reject a challenge to emergency abortion care in Idaho, according to a report from Bloomberg.

The leaked ruling suggests the court will vote 6-3 to reinstate a lower court decision that allowed abortion care to be used in emergency situations in hospital emergency rooms. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito made up the three dissenting.

The version of the ruling dismissed the case as “improvidently granted,” meaning the high court shouldn’t have accepted to hear the case in the first place.

Bloomberg saw the ruling in Idaho and Moyle v. United States on Wednesday morning when the decision was briefly posted to the court’s website before it was removed.

“The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website,” Patricia McCabe, the Supreme Court’s public information officer, told HuffPost in a written statement. “The Court’s opinion in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United Stateswill be issued in due course.”

The copy of the decision has since been removed from the court’s website, which means it is not the final ruling. The leaked decision is reminiscent of the court’s recent ruling on the abortion pill mifepristone. Although it can be viewed as a win because it does not roll back access to emergency abortion care, it does not go as far as to protect that care. It simply prolongs the arguments in the case by kicking it back to lower courts.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in the ruling that this decision is “not a victory for pregnant patients in Idaho” but instead “it is a delay,” according to Bloomberg’s report.

“While this court dawdles and the country waits, pregnant people experiencing emergency