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Idaho is at the forefront of implementing cruel anti-abortion restrictions on top of already existing abortion bans. The Christian nationalist Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is launching its latest attack on abortion rights and life-saving medical treatments in the state. It is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to take emergency action in a federal case that will decide whether emergency room physicians in Idaho can be protected from prosecution under the state’s current abortion ban. ADF filed an emergency stay request with the High Court on Nov. 28. Emergency stay requests go to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, also known as the “shadow docket.” ADF’s application for a stay pending appeal asks the Supreme Court to allow Idaho’s draconian abortion law to take effect while the case continues through the court system. After the Biden administration sued Idaho in federal court in 2022, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled in agreement with it that Idaho’s comprehensive abortion ban was in violation of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The measure requires any medical system that accepts Medicare funding to provide necessary stabilizing care to all patients who come into emergency rooms regardless of ability to pay, […]