Live: Supreme Court set to consider when doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with bans

The Supreme Court appeared skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal healthcare law during oral arguments on Wednesday. The case could determine when doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies.

Here’s what to know:

‘This isn’t going to end with Idaho’

By AMANDA SEITZ

In closing, Turner warned the justices: The federal government could seek to challenge broader abortion bans in other states, pointing other abortion laws do not meet the federal law’s requirements.

Other state abortion laws, he essentially argued, could be weakened if the Supreme Court sides with the Biden administration.

“There are 22 states with abortion laws

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