Idaho has won a major pro-life victory in state court.
Judge Jason Scott of Idaho’s 4th Judicial District Court on Friday held that there was no expansive right to an abortion under the state’s constitution while acknowledging the state’s two exemptions to the general ban on the procedure.
The ruling follows a separate win last month for the state, when President Donald Trump’s Justice Department dropped a Biden-era lawsuit that was attempting to interpret federal law to prevail over Idaho’s Defense of Life Act.
Reacting to the new judicial decision, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said, “While we still disagree with portions of the ruling, it confirms what my office has argued in courts from Boise to Washington, D. C.—that Idaho’s abortion laws are constitutional and protect both unborn children and their mothers.”
The case, Adkins v….
