A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions.

The state's largest health system says physicians are caught between state laws that can limit care, and federal requirements to provide emergency medical treatment.

St. Luke’s Health System is suing Idaho’s Attorney General, arguing the state’s near-total abortion ban conflicts with federal law and puts doctors in an impossible position when treating pregnant patients in emergencies.

The hospital system said there could be “severe public health consequences” if the Department of Justice lawsuit is scuttled and an associated injunction goes away with it.

Idaho’s largest health system is suing Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador in federal court, seeking to extend court protections that have allowed for emergency abortions despite the state’s near total-abortion ban. St. Luke’s Health System filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Idaho on Tuesday.

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A Texas judge has allowed Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri to challenge federal rules on the abortion drug mifepristone. The states want stricter regulations, citing conflict with state abortion laws. The case continues despite a prior Supreme Court decision maintaining access to the drug.

Republicans are fuming at the State Department after learning that aid recipients of the legacy program to curb HIV/AIDS across Africa, PEPFAR, performed abortions in violation of U.S. law.

The amendment would ensure a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom,” protecting abortion in the first two trimesters and in the third trimester with some restrictions.

The Republican-led states of Idaho, Missouri and Kansas can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone in the United States, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday.

Instead of dismissing the case, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said three states with no connection to Texas can sue the FDA to try to reimpose restrictions on mifepristone.