BOISE, Idaho — The Attorney General of Idaho, Raúl Labrador, recently filed a summary judgment that seeks to have a legal case challenging Idaho's abortion law, the Defense of Life Act, thrown out.

The lawsuit, which was brought by Dr. Stacy Seyb of the St. Luke's Health System, argues that despite the Supreme Court's repeal of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Constitution still protects abortions when medically necessary to protect the mother's health. Dr. Seyb is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist for St. Luke's.

As the current Idaho abortion laws are written, Seyb claims that mothers are subject to unnecessary medical risks due to the restrictive nature of the state's abortion law.

That law may prevent mothers from having an abortion before a stillbirth, when a miscarriage is inevitable, an

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