An abortion rights advocate participates in a protest outside of the US Supreme Court Building on June 24 in Washington, DC.
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The Supreme Court appears poised to allow abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho, according to a document that was erroneously posted on the court’s website briefly Wednesday according to Bloomberg News.
The opinion posted on the court’s website showed that a majority of the court agreed to dismiss the appeal, according to Bloomberg, which reported that it reviewed a copy of the opinion.
The release was a stunning breach of protocol at the Supreme Court, which usually carefully guards the release of its opinions. The abortion case was considered among the most significant of the current term that is winding down ahead of the July 4 holiday.
A Supreme Court spokesperson confirmed that a “document” was “inadvertently and briefly uploaded” to the court’s website. Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe stressed that the “opinion” in the case “has not been released” and would be “issued in due course.”
A dismissal would let stand an opinion from the full 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the Biden administration in the case.
Remember: At issue is Idaho’s strict abortion ban, which provides an exception for the life of the pregnant woman. The Biden administration argued that a federal law also required hospitals to perform abortions in cases where the health of the pregnant woman is at stake.
Both the Department of Justice and the White House are declining to comment on Bloomberg’s story and the mistakenly posted document until the Supreme Court’s official opinion is released.
