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.

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 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,

This is the second week of a trial in Idaho where four women are challenging the state’s abortion laws. Tuesday, a doctor for the plaintiffs testified the language of the laws is narrow and unclear, something the state disputes. Much of the testimony in court has been emotional and hard to listen to.