By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday waded back into the battle over abortion access during arguments in a case pitting Idaho’s strict Republican-backed abortion ban against a federal law that ensures that patients can receive emergency care.
The justices are hearing an appeal by Idaho officials of a lower court’s ruling that found that the 1986 U.S. law at issue, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), supersedes the state’s near-total ban in the relatively rare circumstances when the two conflict.
President Joe Biden‘s administration, which sued Idaho over the abortion law, has urged the justices to uphold that ruling.
The arguments were ongoing.
The case has led the…
