BETHESDA, Maryland, June 27 -- The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine issued the following news release: The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) is pleased to announce the selection of two exceptional osteopathic medical students as the 2024-2025 Osteopathic Health Policy Interns. Following a highly competitive review process, Annie Lorelei Hoffman from the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine and Jessica Fung from Touro University California   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Association of American Medical Colleges issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, issued the following statement following the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA): "The AAMC is pleased that the Supreme Court has reinstated the August 2022 district court preliminary injunction. At issue is whether Idaho's law   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 28 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * In response to the Supreme Court's order this morning in Moyle v. US, a case raising the question of whether pregnant people in Idaho can receive emergency medical care - as prescribed by federal law - including abortion care under that state's ban on such care. The Court sent the case back to the lower court for further proceedings. The following can be attribute  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 28 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * The Supreme Court issued a ruling today in Moyle v. United States, dismissing the case from the Supreme Court docket without a ruling on the merits, and sending it back down to continue in the lower courts. While the opinion temporarily restores the ability of doctors in Idaho to provide emergency abortions required under the Emergency Medical Treatment a  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * The following is a statement from Stella M. Dantas, MD, FACOG, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): "We are relieved that the U.S. Supreme Court has reached a decision that will temporarily allow for stabilizing emergency abortion care to continue in the state of Idaho. However, we are truly disappointed that this decis  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The American Humanist Association issued the following agency statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Today the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to dismiss Moyle v. US, lifting a stay it had previously placed on a federal district court order in Idaho to limit emergency abortions there. With the court's decision today, emergency abortions can resume in Idaho to protect the health and safety of pregnant patients. While we welcome today's decision, it is by no means a victory for aborti  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, June 27 [Category: Medical] -- The American Medical Association issued the following news release: The following statement is attributable to: Bobby Mukkamala, M.D. President-elect, American Medical Association "The AMA is relieved the dismissal of an Idaho case by the U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a pause on parts of the state's near-total abortion ban and restored access to emergency abortions in Idaho under federal law. However, today's decision failed to confirm t  more

BELLEVUE, Washington, June 28 -- MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the U.S. Supreme Court action today in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States: "America's moms wanted one thing fr  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Constitutional Accountability Center issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Following today's decision at the Supreme Court in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, two consolidated cases which presented the question of whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to patients experiencing medical emergencies, preempts Idaho's near-total abortion ban in s  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Democracy Forward, a legal organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * While the Court lifted the dangerous stay it previously entered depriving pregnant people of emergency care in Idaho, the Court's majority continues to put the lives and health of patients at risk by failing to protect essential emergency care * * *   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Democracy Forward, a legal organization that says it advances democracy and social progress through litigation, policy and public education and regulatory engagement, issued the following statement: * * * In response to Bloomberg reporting that a decision in Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. U.S. was temporarily posted and then removed from the U.S. Supreme Court's website, Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman issued the following statement: "If the final opinion  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSres) -- The American College of Emergency Physicians issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today's Supreme Court decision temporarily removes barriers to emergency abortion care for pregnant patients in Idaho, but major concerns remain as critical litigation throughout the country continues. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is hopeful that future court decisions clearly and emphatically reaffirm the broad patient protections that already  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 27 -- Equality California issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Equality California, the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, issued the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to Bloomberg reporting on a leaked draft opinion by the United States Supreme Court in the case Moyle v. United States: "The Supreme Court's reported decision that the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMT  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission issued the following news release: The U.S. Supreme Court decided on a vote of 5-4 not to rule on whether or not there is a conflict between Idaho's pro-life law, the "Defense of Life Act," and federal law. In the case, Idaho and Moyle, et al., v. United States of America, the courtdismissed the case and returned it to the Ninth Circuit. This case centered on a conflict between Idaho's statute and   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Families USA, a nonpartisan consumer health advocacy organization, issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Yael Lehmann, Interim Executive Director of Families USA, issued the following statement today on the Supreme Court ruling on the consolidated cases Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States on whether a state abortion ban conflicts with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). This nearly 40-year-old federal law require  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 27 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation welcomes as a temporary reprieve today's Supreme Court decision to allow hospitals in Idaho to resume performing emergency abortion care under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). In a surprise ruling preceded by an inadvertently leaked opinion temporarily posted on the Supreme Court's website Wednesday, the divided decision vaca  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Family Research Council issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court failed to uphold the right of Idaho to protect the unborn in the case of Idaho v. U.S. The case was a challenge to an Idaho law which "prohibits abortions unless necessary to prevent a pregnant woman's death." Perkins commented: "The Supreme Court's decision not to decide the fate  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- In Our Own Voice-National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Today, a leaked Supreme Court document indicated that the Court is likely to dismiss Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States and allow abortions in medical emergencies to proceed in Idaho. In response, Dr. Regina Davis Moss, President and CEO of In Our Own Voice, released the following statement: "While this leak is not the final decision, if it ho  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Interfaith Alliance issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Interfaith Alliance, a national organization that advocates for inclusive democracy and healthy boundaries between religion and government, responded to today's Supreme Court ruling in the case of Idaho and Moyle, et al. v. United States. The ruling should ensure for the time-being that pregnant Idahoans once again have access to emergency abortion care - but failed to expressly uphold the right t  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 27 [Category: Medical] -- The American College of Physicians issued the following news release: Statement attributable to: Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, PhD, MACP President, American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) is relieved by the U.S. Supreme Court decision that despite Idaho law restricting abortion care, patients are still entitled to receive care in the case of a health emergency. ACP and other physician organizations filed an a  more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news on June 27, 2024: Today, the Supreme Court has ruled that it prematurely granted review of Moyle v. United States and United States v. Idaho, a case involving whether an Idaho law trumps the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act's (EMTALA) long-standing requirements to provide critical abortion care to patients suffering emergency pregnancy complications. The Court's opinion did not address the merit  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today, the League of Women Voters of the United States issued the following in response to the US Supreme Court's decisions in United States v. Idaho and United States v. Moyle to decline ruling on the case and return it to the trial court for further proceedings. For now, this means Idaho's abortion ban is invalidated to the extent it conflicts with federal law on emergency care. The Idaho law  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Council of Jewish Women issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * With the Supreme Court's decision turning back a challenge by Idaho to a federal law that protects emergency abortion care when a pregnant person is experiencing a medical emergency, National Council of Jewish Women Government Relations and Advocacy Director Darcy Hirsh issued the following statement. "National Council of Jewish Women is relieved that the US Supreme Court's decis  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Organization for Women issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Christian F. Nunes, National NOW President, issued the following statement in response to today's Supreme Court decision in Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States, cases that challenge the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA): "A Supreme Court that's AWOL for women's health took another half-measure to keep from upholding a 40-year-old federal law, the Eme  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Women's Law Center issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * The Supreme Court ruled today on Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States, that - for now - emergency abortions in Idaho are allowed when a woman's health is at risk. The following statement is from Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women's Law Center: "The Supreme Court deserves absolutely no credit for this decision. This  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The National Women's Law Center issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * After the apparent opinion in Idaho v. United States was briefly posted on the Supreme Court website, Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, issued the following statement about the ruling and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). "While we await the final decision in what should be an open-and-shut case, we are furious that this dr  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Power to Decide issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Moyle v. United States, sending cases challenging the right to emergency abortion services in Idaho back to the lower courts. The decision allows emergency abortion care to resume in Idaho for the time being, despite the abortion ban in place. However, the Court did not rule on whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism issued the following news on June 27, 2024: In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Idaho v. United States, returning the case concerning Idaho's near-total abortion ban to lower courts, Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, and Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch, Chief Executive Officer of Women of Reform Judaism, released the following statement: Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch: "While we are   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 28 -- Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that says it advances reproductive justice and eliminates barriers to safe and legal abortion care, issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Supreme Court allows for proceedings on the case to continue in lower courts In the meantime, emergency abortion care can commence in Idaho, though Texas ban remains * * * The United States Supreme Court today issued a decision in the consolidated cases of Moyle &   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Institute for Women's Policy Research issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * IWPR President and CEO Dr. Jamila K. Taylor issued the following statement after the Supreme Court's decision prevented Idaho from enforcing its extreme abortion bans in cases where a pregnant person's health is at risk while litigation continues, but failed to resolve the underlying question of whether state laws like Idaho's take precedence over the federal Emergency Medica  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Concerned Women for America issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation's largest public policy women's organization, responded to the United States Supreme Court decision in Idaho v. United States on whether to stay the order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho enjoining the enforcement of Idaho's Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued its opinion on the consolidated cases of Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States today, temporarily preventing Idaho's abortion ban from being enforced in serious health-threatening situations under the nation's Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). In a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS dismissed the state's a  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Today, AMCHP's Chief of Policy and Government Affairs, Sherie Lou Santos, issued the following statement in response to the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, in the consolidated cases of Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States: "Today, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed these cases as 'improvidently granted' - meaning the Court determined the district court  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Small Business Majority issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Statement from Rachel Shanklin, National Women's Entrepreneurship Director for Small Business Majority, on the high court's decision not to allow state abortion bans to supersede the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act at this time. "The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to temporarily stop Idaho's attempt to block pregnant people from accessing critical maternal care offers hope that small  more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- The Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that says it is committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide, issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * "The Supreme Court is preserving federal protections for emergency abortion care in Idaho for the time being. This decision is the bare minimum, and the Court should have been clear in affirming that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) protects abort  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 27 -- Equal Rights Advocates issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * Statement by Noreen Farrell, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), which fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country. According to a leaked document posted and removed from the court website today in Moyle v. United States, the Supreme Court is poised to rule 6-3 that it should not have stepped in to stay a lower court injunction of the I  more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- Physicians for Human Rights issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: The Supreme Court's decision to avoid ruling on the conflict between Idaho's extreme ban on access to abortion and a federal law guaranteeing access to abortions in cases of emergency provides a reprieve to pregnant patients in Idaho but leaves pregnant patients experiencing grave health risks and emergency room clinicians facing a medical ethics crisis in other states with similar bans, Physici  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSres) -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Reproductive Rights are LGBTQ+ Rights: According to a Guttmacher report, more than 1 in 6 (17.1%) abortion patients in the US identify as LGBTQ+. Through this decision, the Supreme Court sends this case back to the lower courts to determine whether life-saving, stabilizing abortion care is federally protected, creating opportunities to roll back abortion access. * * * Today, t  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the procedural mess it made in Idaho v. United States, during which vulnerable pregnant patients bore the consequences of the politicization of the judiciary. Although emergency abortion care under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) will be permitted in Idaho while the merits of the case are decided by lower courts, pregnant  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Alliance for Justice issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today the Supreme Court issued its decision (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-726_6jgm.pdf) in the consolidated cases of Moyle v. U.S. and Idaho v. U.S., dismissing the cases as improvidently granted. The Court essentially decided that it was too soon to rule, kicking the cases back down to the lower courts. On the bright side, this will bring back the stay of the law that will prot  more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- The Center for Reproductive Rights issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * While EMTALA protections are revived in Idaho for now, the High Court punted the issue down the road, declining to confirm whether people who need stabilizing abortions are entitled to the same EMTALA protections as all other patients * * * Just one day after accidentally posting the unfinished opinion to their website, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today to reinstate a lower cour  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Constitutional Accountability Center issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * At present, when federal and state laws on emergency care clash, federal law takes precedence. * * * The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to permit -- for now -- abortions to be performed in Idaho when pregnant women are facing medical emergencies, as the justices dispensed with the contentious issue without actually deciding the case on its merits. The 6-3 ruling, w  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Health Law Program issued the following news on June 27, 2024: Today, the Supreme Court released an opinion in the consolidated cases Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States, dismissing the writ of certiorari and returning the case to the lower courts. This ruling does not address the central conflict between the state's extreme abortion ban and the core principle of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) that all people, regardless   more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- Physicians for Reproductive Health issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Moyle v. United States that the case was improvidently granted and the federal district court's order enjoining Idaho's abortion ban as it conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act would remain in place while the case continues. This means that, for now, people are legally entitled to receive emergency abortion care.  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- National Right to Life, a pro-life organization, issued the following statement on June 26, 2024: * * * The U.S. Supreme Court, in a temporary post on its website, appears to have issued a 6-3 decision in Moyle v. United States and dismissed the case as "improvidently granted." The decision reinstates the lower court's pause on the Idaho law in question while litigation continues in the lower courts. While we were hopeful for a ruling on the merits, the Court made clear  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- National Right to Life, a pro-life organization, issued the following news release: The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in Moyle v. United States dismissing the case as "improvidently granted." The decision reinstates the lower court's pause on the Idaho law in question while litigation continues in the lower courts. National Right to Life was seeking a ruling on the merits, however, the Court made clear that this case needs further lower court resolution. The s  more

NEW YORK, June 28 -- The Global Justice Center issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: The United States Supreme Court today reinstated a lower court order allowing Idaho healthcare providers to provide emergency abortions to protect the health of pregnant people. In its 6-3 opinion, the court declared the case was "improvidently granted," meaning it did not rule on the central question in the case. The court instead sent the case back to a lower court for adjudication -- and a pot  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Young Invincibles, an advocacy organization, issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today, the Supreme Court of the United States dismissed Idaho's attempt to prevent emergency room doctors from performing medically necessary abortions. This is the second case this term that sought to further limit access to abortion. The Court's decision allows the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to remain fully enforceable in Idaho, despite the stat  more