Both legal and medical experts slammed US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s dissent in a 6-3 decision allowing “Idaho doctors discretion to perform emergency abortions while the current law says it is only permissible to save the life of a pregnant patient,” according to PBS. American University Washington College of Law professor Maya Manian told Salon Thursday, “Alito’s dissent represented a ‘complete disparagement of concern for women’s health, for pregnant patients’ health.'” Similarly, in a Thursday, June 27 op-ed published by Slate, Dr. Dara Kass, an emergency medicine physician, asse…
