Jennifer Adkins, of Caldwell, Idaho, is a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s strict abortion law. Adkins, a mother, was pregnant with her second child when she found out the pregnancy was not viable and threatened her health. She obtained an abortion in Oregon. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman)

In a packed Boise courtroom, Idaho attorney James Craig on Tuesday invoked macabre imagery of abortions as he defended the state’s near-total abortion ban. They’re “gruesome and barbaric medical procedures,

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 bir