Medical community holds off optimism over Idaho abortion decision [Video]

BOISE, Idaho — With the news that the U.S. Supreme Court had dismissed an Idaho case, sending it back down to an appeals court, a hesitant sort of optimism spread through Idaho’s medical community.

The high court’s decision allows emergency abortions to protect the health of a pregnant person, not just to prevent death as currently written under Idaho’s current law. Though that could change again when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals takes up the issue again.

For now, Idaho’s pro-life lawmakers like Attorney General Raul Labrador are marking it as a small victory.

“Today, the court said that Idaho will be able to enforce its law to save lives in the vast majority of circumstances, while the case proceeds,” Labrador said Thursday morning.

Though some pro-choice advocates and …