4 women sue Idaho over law that voids your living will if you're pregnant

Idaho allows people to officially state their wishes for treatment at the ends of their lives or in medical emergencies.

The legal document is called a living will, or advanced directive. It spells out whether someone who is dying or in a persistent vegetative state wants health care providers to keep them alive — unless that someone is a pregnant woman.

Under Idaho law, if a woman has a directive for end-of-life care, it becomes invalid if she is pregnant.

Four Idaho women are challenging this law, saying it violates people's constitutional rights to legal equality and to direct their own medical care. Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln of Caldwell and Anna Almerico, Micaela de Loyola-Carkin and Hannah Sharp of Boise on Thursday sued Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Health and Welfare Director Russ Barron in federal court.

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