The US Supreme Court appears poised to authorise emergency abortions in the state of Idaho, according to a document published erroneously online Wednesday in the latest mishap involving a high-profile case over reproductive rights.
The apparent draft opinion briefly published to the court’s website, which was downloaded and shared by Bloomberg, showed that a majority of the court’s nine justices had voted to reinstate a lower-court ruling that blocked a near-total ban on abortions in Idaho.
The filing said the Idaho case should be dismissed as “improvidently granted”, a rare reversal of the court’s decision to hear the case in the first place.