Idaho officials on Monday asked the Supreme Court to restore a strict abortion law that would allow the state to prosecute physicians conducting abortions in some cases.
The Idaho law, enacted in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, allows state officials to prosecute or revoke the professional license of doctors who perform abortions, except in cases where it is necessary to prevent the woman's death or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest.
It's pretty routine when you lose in the lower court to ask the Supreme Court to intervene, says Mary Ziegler, a law professor at the University of California at Davis with an expertise in abortion. Whether the court is willing to intervene or even wants to deal with yet another abortion case is a trickier question. Idaho's law is one of the strictest in the nation, and whether the Supreme Court gets involved will have legal and political ramifications in the country's shifting abortion landscape.
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