We felt like we were being made refugees, medical refugees,” said Jennifer Adkins, one of the plaintiffs in the case.

Four women who are suing the state of Idaho after they were denied abortions will testify starting Tuesday about their experiences traveling out of state to end nonviable pregnancies.The lawsuit at the center of the trial in Ada County District Court seeks to clarify the medical exemptions to Idaho’s strict abortion laws.

But they lived in Idaho at the time, which has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. The couple contacted several abortion clinics outside of the state and they were eventually able to get an appointment at a clinic in Seattle,