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BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will review a case challenging Idaho’s strict abortion ban. The Biden administration argues that the ban conflicts with a federal law that requires emergency room doctors to perform the procedure in certain circumstances. Idaho’s attorney general sought the intervention of the Supreme Court after a lower court judge blocked a provision in the state’s abortion statute that targeted doctors. The judge ruled that the provision violated a federal law that guarantees emergency care for hospitals receiving Medicare funding. The Supreme Court allowed the … Read more