{"id":5569,"date":"2023-01-06T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/idaho-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-abortion-ban\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:02:33","slug":"idaho-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/idaho-supreme-court-upholds-near-total-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Justice Robyn Brody, who wrote the majority opinion, rejected arguments from abortion-rights proponents that the right to abortion is implied in the state\u2019s constitution \u2014 saying that to do so there must be evidence that the right was \u201cdeeply rooted\u201d in the state\u2019s history and traditions at the time it was written.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">\u201cThe relevant history and traditions of Idaho show abortion was viewed as an immoral act and treated as a crime,\u201d Brody wrote. \u201cThus, we cannot conclude the framers and adopters of the Inalienable Rights Clause intended to implicitly protect abortion as a fundamental right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">She added, however, that nothing in the decision prevents the voters from amending the state constitution or electing new legislators to change the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">\u201cWe emphasize that all we are deciding today is that the Idaho Constitution, as it currently stands, does not include a fundamental right to abortion,\u201d Brody wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">The decision <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/05\/south-carolina-supreme-court-rules-abortion-protected-under-state-constitution-00076576\" class=\" js-tealium-tracking \" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\" rel=\"noopener\">comes just hours<\/a> after the South Carolina Supreme Court released its opinion striking down the state\u2019s six-week abortion ban under a privacy clause in the state\u2019s constitution, allowing abortion to remain legal in the state until 20 weeks of pregnancy. Idaho has no right to privacy in its state constitution, and an effort to add such a right was rejected by voters in 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Similar cases are pending in Arizona, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said the decision would \u201csave thousands of lives a year\u201d and praised Idaho lawmakers for \u201cdefending their law all the way to their Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">\u201cThe Idaho Supreme Court rejected the abortion lobby\u2019s bid to impose a \u2018right\u2019 to abortion on demand \u2014 recognizing that their role is to interpret the law as enacted by the people of Idaho, whose elected representatives have consistently passed pro-life laws,\u201d Dannenfelser said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Rebecca Gibron, CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, said the ruling represented a \u201cdark day for the state of Idaho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">\u201cPlanned Parenthood will never back down. We will keep fighting with everything we\u2019ve got to restore Idahoans\u2019 right to control our bodies and our lives,\u201d Gibron said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/05\/idaho-supreme-court-abortion-ban-00076704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link: https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/05\/idaho-supreme-court-abortion-ban-00076704  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Robyn Brody, who wrote the majority opinion, rejected arguments from abortion-rights proponents that the right to abortion is implied in the state\u2019s constitution \u2014 saying that to do so there must be evidence that the right was \u201cdeeply rooted\u201d in the state\u2019s history and traditions at the time it was written. \u201cThe relevant history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3954,1444,302,7845,9997,301,9201],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.politico.com\/1c\/6f\/94552cc54ca18e426bf6e2e20a08\/abortion-idaho-lawsuit-68170.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europepublic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}