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An announcement from the Department of Justice has confirmed that it is dropping a Joe Biden-era lawsuit that tried to force abortion on physicians and nurses in Idaho.
BREAKING: Trump Cancels Lawsuit Biden Filed to Force Idaho to Allow Abortions https://t.co/9JJZV2Ssso pic.twitter.com/eB2Q1xYeXm
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) March 5, 2025
The Department of Justice has DROPPED a Biden-era lawsuit that had attempted to compel Idaho to allow abortions in violation of the state’s Defense of Life Act. @SignalAdams https://t.co/VkEYSYPBvu
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) March 6, 2025
Biden claimed the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act overrides state life protections and demanded that pro-life states such as Idaho allow abortions if they were required to “stabilize a woman in a medical condition.”
The Idaho law already permitted an abortion “on the subjective, good-faith medical judgment of a doctor who believes the life of the mother is threatened,” the report explained.
Idaho’s attorney general, Raúl Labrador, has argued in a court hearing the Biden lawsuit that the two laws had no conflict, and eventually a Boise hospital network sued as the administration of President Donald Trump was taking over, expecting the case would be dropped.
Claims had included that women had to be airlifted out of the state for abortion.
Kelsey Pritchard, of SBA Pro-Life America, told the Daily Signal, “The PR stunts that the abortion lobby and abortion advocates pull, with things like that and furthering the misinformation on women’s ability to get care; that is what is, actually needing women to be confused and doctors to be confused, because the laws are pretty straightforward.”
At the same time, B. Lynn Winmill, who was given the job as a judge by Bill Clinton, issued a temporary restraining order that blocks Idaho’s Defense of Life Act form being enforced, pending a hearing.
“Of course, this is from an activist Clinton-appointed judge, but at the end of the day, Democrat abortion extremism cost the Democrats the election, and Biden’s weaponization of the federal government is over, and the will of the people on this is very clear,” Pritchard told the publication.
