Abortion to be put further out of reach for millions of women as slate of ‘trigger bans’ take effect
CNNCNN — A slate of restrictive state abortion laws, including so-called trigger laws, are set to take effect this week, putting access to abortion further out of reach for millions of women as Republican-led states rush to limit the procedure since the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. The Idaho decision came a day after a dueling decision in a Texas case that concerned how that state’s abortion ban interacted with federal law setting standards for emergency room care. In Idaho, the judge agreed with the Justice Department arguments that EMTALA preempted state abortion bans when those bans would criminalize procedures for medical emergencies contemplated by the federal law. North Dakota’s trigger law that bans abortions in most circumstances was set to take effect on Friday, but a state judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the ban.