Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky Et Al V. Labrador Et Al
Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky, along with two physicians, have filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. The lawsuit challenges Idaho's Total Abortion Ban and the interpretation of Idaho law by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, members of the Idaho State Board of Medicine and Idaho State Board of Nursing, and county prosecuting attorneys. The interpretation prohibits medical providers from referring women across state lines to access abortion services and requires the suspension of a healthcare professional's license for doing so. The plaintiffs argue that this interpretation is unconstitutional and violates their First Amendment rights, as well as their patients' right to access legal abortion care. They seek declaratory and injunctive relief to protect their ability to provide comprehensive reproductive healthcare to their patients. Additionally, the lawsuit argues that the ban and interpretation violate the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by applying Idaho's laws extraterritorially to criminalize out-of-state activity that is lawful where it occurs.
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