What to make of US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling
The justices’ rulings sometimes seem deliberately hard to follow
THE SUPREME COURT loves to keep America guessing. The justices say which days they “may announce opinions” but offer no whisper of which rulings are coming on a given day. On June 26th the court managed to raise the intrigue to new heights. After just two of a dozen pending decisions were released, Moyle v United States fleetingly appeared on the Supreme Court’s website.
The document vanished as unceremoniously as it arrived, but not before Bloomberg News grabbed a copy. Moyle addresses a stand-off between the Idaho Defence of Life Act—which bans abortion unless the fetus is conceived through rape or incest, or if the woman’s life is at stake—and then only in the first trimester—and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labour Act (EMTALA), a law requiring hospitals that receive federal funding to provide “stabilising treatment”. The Biden administration says that includes abortion when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s health.
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