A judge has ruled than an abortion in Idaho is not prohibited if pregnancy complications could cause a woman's death.

Four women suing over Idaho’s strict abortion ban 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.

An Idaho judge has denied a request by the state’s top legal chief to throw out a lawsuit seeking to clarify the exemptions tucked inside the state’s broad abortion ban.

An attorney for Idaho has asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking clarity about the medical exemptions to the state’s broad abortion bans.