These old state laws make abortion access hell — so advocates are suing to get rid of them

Nurse Practitioner Mary Stark has performed countless vacuum aspiration procedures for Idaho patients who have miscarriages. Vacuum aspiration is basically, by another name, a suction abortion. Because of Idaho’s physician-only abortion law, Stark cannot perform a vacuum aspiration for patients who choose to end their pregnancies.

“I could complete a procedure to empty out the uterus, but only if the pregnancy had ended on its own,” Stark told ThinkProgress.  

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