Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands sued the state of Idaho Tuesday over its abortion reporting law requiring health care providers to report abortion complications.
The abortion organization filed its lawsuit in Idaho’s U.S. District Court, asking the state to abandon its abortion reporting law that went into effect July 1, according to the Times Union. The law, HB 638, requires all licensed abortion clinics, hospitals and physicians to file a report with Iowa’s Health Department in case of any complications that occur during a woman’s abortion. A report is required if the woman undergoing the procedure needs medical treatment or dies from complications.
The report must include the age and race of the patient, state and country of residence, and number of previous pregnancies, births and abortions of the patient. The gestational age of the unborn baby, abortion method used and identification of the physician must also appear in the report among other requirements, according to the law. The patient’s identity is kept private.
A licensed medical professional who fails to file a report in the case of an abortion complication faces a $500 fine, while licensed facilities face a $1,000 fine and six-month license suspension upon a second infraction. Violating the reporting law three times or more results in a one-year license suspension.
The Tuesday lawsuit follows a number of other lawsuits Planned Parenthood has brought against states. Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, along with a number of other abortion clinics in the state, filed a lawsuit in Virginia’s U.S. District Court in June over a law requiring women to receive an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before aborting.
Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also filed a lawsuit against Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Board of Medicine in May over Iowa’s law banning all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. (RELATED: Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Iowa Over ‘Cruel’ 6-Week Abortion Ban)
Abortion groups have repeatedly been suing states after 2016 in hopes of getting abortion restrictions blocked or repealed. Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Little Rock Family Planning Services filed a June 2017 lawsuit seeking to dismantle the Arkansas law allowing the state to shut down an abortion clinic if it violates the law in any way.
The ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights also sued the state of Arkansas in June 2017 over its abortion restrictions.
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