WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of its first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump began his second term.
The Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was originally filed by the Biden administration, in a reversal that could have national implications for urgent care.
The Biden administration had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if necessary in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
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