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Similar state abortion challenges meet different outcomes

FILE - An attendee at Planned Parenthood's Bans Off Our Bodies rally for abortion rights holds a sign reading "Idaho the women as property state" outside of the Idaho Statehouse in downtown Boise, Idaho, on May 14, 2022. Idaho's Constitution does not implicitly enshrine abortion as a fundamental right, the state Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 as it dismissed a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File) FILE - Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Director of Public Affairs Vicki Ringer addresses reporters on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that a ban on abortions after cardiac activity violates the state constitution's right to privacy. (AP Photo/James Pollard, FIle) FILE - A large crowd marches to downtown during a University of Minnesota student led protest in Minneapolis, Minn., after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade on June 24, 2022. A bill to strengthen abortion rights in Minnesota is on the fast track to becoming law as it passed a legislative committee in its first test Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (Renée Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP, File) FILE - South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster holds up a bill banning almost all abortions in the state after he signed it into law on Feb. 18, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. The South Carolina ban on abortions after cardiac activity is no more after the latest legal challenge to the state's 2021 law proved successful. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, that the restrictions violate the state constitution's right to privacy. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File)
Similar state abortion challenges meet different outcomes