EMILYs List Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Draft Opinion in Emergency Abortion Ban Case

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion was briefly made public for Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, a case in which anti-abortion extremists were trying to exclude pregnant people from emergency care protections and force medical professionals to deny them necessary abortion care in life-threatening situations. It would allow Idaho hospitals to provide patients with emergency abortion care while litigation on the case continues in lower courts. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement on the decision: 

“Don’t get it twisted: Today’s draft opinion is nothing more than a temporary stopgap for pregnant patients experiencing life-threatening health emergencies. The Supreme Court has merely delayed its decision in this case, sending it back through lower courts before it ultimately returns to its docket. American lives remain in peril because Donald Trump, extremist Republican legislators, and a Republican-stacked Supreme Court will not stop until they’ve fully decimated reproductive health care.

“Our fundamental rights hanging at the mercy of the courts is not acceptable. If we’re going to change the tides, we need to secure Democratic pro-choice majorities — led by Democratic pro-choice women — at all levels of the ballot. EMILYs List will continue to do whatever it takes to elect the Democratic, pro-choice women who are fighting like our lives are on their line — because they are.” 

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