Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) reposted this
I am proud to share that the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) along with sixteen other disability rights organizations and experts filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case called United States v. Moyle (Case No. 23-35450). In March, DREDF and other disability rights amici filed an amicus brief in this same case when it was before the Supreme Court. The Court dismissed the case for being "improvidently granted" and kicked it back down to the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit will now consider whether the Idaho district court properly granted a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of Idaho's total abortion ban, and whether a federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act ("EMTALA") preempts Idaho's state law. The disability rights brief filed on Tuesday highlights how Idaho’s ban conflicts with the protections guaranteed by EMTALA and discusses the importance of access to emergency abortion care for the disability community. Pregnant people with disabilities are more likely than non-disabled people to experience almost all adverse pregnancy outcomes and are eleven times more likely to die during childbirth–making access to emergency abortion crucial to protect the health and lives of the disability community. As always, it was a pleasure to work on this brief alongside Michelle Uzeta, Amanda Spriggs Reid at Women Enabled International and Lee Tremblay at Legal Voice. Read more about the case on DREDF's website: https://lnkd.in/g6iQKdxE Read the brief here: