to make daylight saving time permanent has stalled in Congress; it has been reintroduced this year.
with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman’s death, even if that death “is neither imminent nor assured,” a state judge said Friday in a ruling that loosens one of the
over Idaho’s strict abortion bans. The women, who are represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, aren’t asking for the state’s abortion ban to be overturned. Instead, they want the judge to clarify and expand the exceptions to the strict ban so people facing serious pregnancy complications can receive abortions before they are at death’s door.A representative for the Idaho attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the ruling.The state’s near-total ban currently makes performing an abortion a felony at any stage of pregnancy unless it is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.”
Judge Jason Scott issued the ruling broadening the medical exception to the ban, allowing doctors to perform an abortion if “good faith medical judgment” shows a patient with an existing medical condition or pregnancy complication faces a risk of dying at some point without an abortion.The Center for Reproductive Rights said while people in dire circumstances will able to receive abortion care in Idaho, pregnant people with lethal fetal conditions don’t qualify unless the condition also poses a risk to the mother’s life.
“Pregnant Idahoans whose health is in danger shouldn’t be forced to remain pregnant, and we are glad the court recognized that today. But this decision leaves behind so many people, including some of the women who brought this case,” said Gail Deady, a center staff attorney. “No one should have to choose between carrying a doomed pregnancy against their will or fleeing the state if they can.”
The center noted the judge’s ruling also prevents people at risk of death from self-harm due to mental health conditions from accessing abortion care.Israel and the U.S. say the new system is aimed at preventing Hamas from siphoning off assistance. Israel has not provided evidence of systematic diversion, and the U.N. denies it has occurred.
U.N. agencies and major aid groups say the new system allows Israel to control who receives aid and forces people to relocate to distribution sites, risking yet more mass displacement in the coastal territory.“It’s essentially engineered scarcity,” Jonathan Whittall, interim head in Gaza of the U.N. humanitarian office, said last week.
after Israel slightly eased its nearly three-month blockade of the territory last month. The groups say Israeli restrictions, the breakdown of law and order and widespread looting make it extremely difficult to deliver aid to Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.Experts have warned that the territory