Supreme Court sharply at odds over emergency room abortion access in states’ rights challenge

The contentious issue of abortion has returned to the Supreme Court, with the justices prepared on Wednesday to weigh a states’ rights challenge over hospital emergency room access to the procedure.In nearly two hours of oral arguments, the high court confronted whether state abortion restrictions are invalidated by a federal law.It was unclear from the public session how the court might eventually decide. The votes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett may prove decisive. They asked tough questions of both sides.Idaho officials say hospitals cannot be forced by the Biden…