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The Supreme Court officially announced Thursday that it would allow emergency abortions in Idaho without deciding key issues in the case, closing an unusual episode in which a draft of the decision accidentally became public a day earlier.
Since the court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, ending federal protections for abortion, the inability of women in some states to access abortions in medical emergencies has emerged as a top issue, shifting public opinion on abortion rights and galvanizing political opposition to bans on the procedure.
The Supreme Court’s nondecision, in which a majority voted to dismiss the case as “improvidently granted,” will do little to end that debate or provide clarity to doctors struggling with how to interpret lifesaving exceptions to abortion bans.