November 9, 2024 Sandra Kinney # Idaho Defends Pro-Life Law at 9th Circuit, Dispels ‘Airlifting’ Narrative
[BOISE] – The following quote may be attributed to Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador regarding a reply brief the Attorney General’s office and Alliance Defending Freedom filed this week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in United States of America v. State of Idaho. In the case, the Biden-Harris Administration is attempting to use federal law to force emergency room doctors to perform abortions that are illegal under Idaho’s Defense of Life Act:
“The Biden-Harris administration’s radical interpretation of federal law shows a lawless disregard for Idaho’s right to protect life. Idaho’s Defense of Life Act is perfectly consistent with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which requires doctors to care both for women and their ‘unborn children.’ At the U.S. Supreme Court and in the 9th Circuit, the administration has repeated St. Luke’s hospital’s unsubstantiated claim that Idaho’s law required women to be emergency airlifted from our state to obtain an abortion. But when questioned under oath, St. Luke’s admitted it did not know why the women were transferred. In fact, one of the women airlifted out of state gave birth to healthy twins from ‘very much a wanted pregnancy.’ Idaho’s law expects doctors to save women’s lives. ”