The Supreme Court appears prepared to allow emergency room doctors in Idaho to perform abortions in certain situations, according to a copy of a forthcoming court ruling accidentally posted Wednesday.
The apparent 6-3 decision reinstates a lower court’s order that required Idaho hospitals to perform emergency abortions to protect the health of the mother. The preliminary ruling said the court is dismissing the case as “improvidently granted,” meaning it decided it should not review the case.
The court quickly deleted the opinion from its website after the accidental posting. The brief release was a rare protocol breach, reminiscent of the early May 2022 leak of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was issued in late June.
The posted version indicated the majority will dismiss appeals by Idaho and its Republican leaders,…
