The Trump administration fired a series of dramatic attacks on abortion rights on Tuesday. This signaled plans to halt cases defending access to abortion and indicated that the U.S. Supreme Court was seeking permission to participate in a lawsuit against planned custody of abortion providers.
The Justice Department said it would dismiss a lawsuit over emergency abortion originally filed by the Biden administration, according to court documents filed by Idaho’s largest hospital network. The Biden administration has sued Idaho over a nearly identical abortion ban accused of violating federal laws protecting patients’ rights to health care in emergencies.
The firing could come soon Wednesday, and St. Luke’s health system wrote in court filings. The hospital previously said the Idaho ban forced providers to fly women out of state for emergency care.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has filed a document asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take part in future oral debates in a case surrounding South Carolina’s attempt to eradicate Medicaid funds for health services provided by planned custody.
South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster said it is already illegal to use federal dollars to pay for abortion, but McMaster ordered that “interest taxpayer fund payments be intermittently blocked and planned parents from Medicaid as a result of poor attitude subsidies and relief subsidies, as a result of taxpayer fund payments for any purpose.
The Trump administration is helping South Carolina protect its actions and seeking 10-minute running time for oral debates in April. South Carolina is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a major Christian legal organization that is the architect of many of the conservative attacks on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.
Under Medicaid rules, patients may choose to see providers eligible to treat them. Planned parent-child relationships usually provide an array of reproductive and sexual health services, such as STI tests and birth control. South Carolina also bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Before you realize that many women are pregnant.
These moves appear to mark some of the administration’s first major actions on abortion. In his first term, Donald Trump appointed many of the Supreme Court judges who voted to overturn the national abortion rights in 2022.
“The Trump administration has made it clear that they will die to women rather than abortion,” ACLU’s Chief Politics and Advocacy Director Deirdre Schifeling said in a statement after news of the Idaho submission was destroyed.
“On the campaign trajectory, President Trump has repeatedly promised not to interfere with the ability of women to access abortion and the ability of patients to obtain the care they need. I hope that, from his administration to his administration, which did not maintain that promise, to his administration, he hopes that his loved ones will be able to get the care they need in hospitals.”
Tuesday’s filing from St. Luke came to allow hospitals to seek court orders to continue offering abortions in emergencies that doctors deem necessary. Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from the US emergency room, which spiked after Roe v Wade was overturned, federal records show.
The Supreme Court stepped into the Idaho lawsuit last year and ultimately handed over a narrow ruling that allowed hospitals to continue with emergency abortions as doctors deemed necessary.
However, the High Court failed to resolve any important legal questions in the case, and was discussed before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in December. Although the Court of Appeal has not yet ruled, Idaho argues that its state law allows abortion in life-threatening circumstances and that the Biden administration is trying to inappropriately extend that exception.
A Justice Department spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Idaho officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“The case is about preserving South Carolina’s powers and governing yourself in a way that aligns with law and state values,” McMaster spokesman Brandon Charok said in a statement. “Governor McMaster thank the Trump administration for defending his ability to protect lives.”
“Governor McMaster welcomes and appreciates the Trump administration’s support in Medina v Planned custody. This incident is about preserving South Carolina’s powers and governing itself in a way that aligns with law and state values. Governor McMaster thanks the Trump administration for defending his ability to protect lives.”
Approximately 50,000 people in the United States develop life-threatening pregnancy complications each year, including major blood loss, sepsis, or loss of the reproductive organs. In rare cases, doctors may need to end their pregnancy to protect the health of a pregnant person. Especially when the fetus has no chance of survival.
Before the court stopped the court from enforcing a health-threatening emergency ban, some Idaho doctors reported that pregnant women were facing delays in care and in some cases flying out of state hospitals for treatment.
Most Republican-controlled states have begun implementing new bans or restrictions since 2022. Currently, 12 states have enforced abortion bans at all stages of pregnancy, with limited exceptions, with four kicking in about six weeks to pregnancy.
