Three Jewish women challenged Kentucky's near-total abortion ban on the grounds that it infringed on their religious beliefs that life begins at birth, not conception.

The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.

A U.S. Supreme Court opinion briefly posted on its website suggests the court will allow abortions in medical emergencies in Idaho, according to Bloomberg News, which obtained a copy of the opinions.

More family medicine and primary care doctors are doing abortions and questioning why it’s been separated from other care for decades.

Florida recently issued new guidance on when an abortion can be performed under exceptions, but providers say it has caused even more confusion.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling upholds access to mifepristone, a drug used in more than 60% of abortions. The decision shocked some doctors and abortion rights advocates.

The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.

The Supreme Court will be issuing major rulings in the next month. Normally by this point in the term there are between four and six really big cases left. This year, there are over a dozen.

The lifting of some restrictions opens new possibilities to make medication abortion more accessible and expand capacity. Two other provisions of Senate Bill 20 remain contested.

Federal District Court Judge Catherine Eagles overruled a spate of North Carolina laws that added new requirements to the abortion drug mifepristone.