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Carter Sherman

‘How sick do they have to get?’ Doctors brace for US supreme court hearing on emergency abortions

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Abortion rights supporters protest against a ban in Idaho in 2023. Photograph: Sarah A Miller/Idaho Statesman via Getty Images

Dr Lauren Miller used to cry every day on her way to work.

A fetal maternal medicine specialist in Idaho, Miller despaired over the possibility she might be forced to tell patients she could not help them. Idaho has one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation, which means Miller could only perform abortions to save a woman’s life – and many patients, even those facing medical emergencies with potentially deadly consequences, were not yet sick enough to qualify.

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