As SCOTUS nod allows emergency abortions, Illinois is set to protect them in law

Abortion remains legal as an emergency medical procedure in Idaho, for now, after a Thursday U.S. Supreme Court ruling, while a bill that would cement those protections in Illinois law awaits Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature.

The 6-3 decision saw the three liberal justices concur with the order. Three of the court’s conservatives – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – concurred separately. The dismissal sent the case back to the lower courts and reinstated a temporary injunction on Idaho’s law banning all abortions except as “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman” or in the case of rape or incest.