Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amman Navas on the news hour tonight.

The Supreme Court weighs whether federal protections for emergency medical care override a near total ban of abortions

at the state level.

After months of wrangling in the House, President Biden signs a major foreign aid package that includes tens of billions of

dollars for Ukraine and evangelical Christians in Ukraine are caught in the

crosshairs of Russia's invasion.

Many prayer houses have been closed, sealed off,

and believers are forced to gather in private homes

in secret in order to pray and take part in rituals. Welcome to the news hour. It was a charged atmosphere at the Supreme Court today

as the justices heard arguments in a major abortion case out of Idaho.

The court looked at whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide abortion care in

emergency situations would apply to states with strict abortion bans.

Currently more than two dozen states ban or severely restrict abortion access,

but there are six states in particular, including Idaho,

with no health exceptions.

The case brought protesters on all sides

of the abortion issue to the Supreme Court today

for what was the second case on reproductive care before the court in the last month.

Special correspondent, Sarah Varney joins us.

She spent years covering health care and is closely following this case.

Sarah, thanks so much for being with us.

The arguments today were lively,

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