Lawyers for the state called on doctors who said they don’t find the abortion bans confusing – including one who considers hormonal birth control abortive.

Proceedings in the trial challenging Idaho's abortion bans closed on Thursday in Ada County after the plaintiffs rested their case and the defense presented their testimonies.

The case has drawn national attention to Idaho’s ban, one of the first enacted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As it proceeds, abortion rights advocates are watching to see whether court challenges — including in other Republican-led states,

Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion bans told a judge Tuesday how excitement over their pregnancies turned to grief and fear after they learned their fetuses were not likely to survive to birth — and how they had to leave the state to get abortions amid fears that pregnancy complications would put their own health in danger.

The lawsuit against the state in the 4th Judicial District in Ada County was brought by several women and doctors who say the ban has harmed them. Craig said Idaho has an obligation to protect “unborn children” as he outlined the state’s case,

Testimony continued for a 5th day in an Ada County courtroom, where legal and medical experts debated the implications of Idaho's abortion bans.

The plaintiffs want the judge to clarify Idaho's exceptions, which they believe is the only way women with pregnancy complications can get the care they need.