Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to remove language providing that a physician has examined in person a woman to whom an abortifacient is administered to determine the medical appropriateness of such administration and has determined that the abortifacient is sufficiently safe for use in the gestational age at which it will be administered; and to remove language providing that no drug may be prescribed through telehealth services for the purposes of causing an abortion.

The purpose of this legislation is to terminate the lawsuit now pending against the State of Idaho in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho (Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands v. Wasden, et.al., Case No. 1:15-cv-00557-BLW). This legislation would repeal certain provisions of the law regulating the performance of chemical abortions adopted by the Legislature in 2015.