A man is suing three women for wrongful death, alleging they helped his now ex-wife end her pregnancy
At the end of this month, an Idaho labor and delivery unit will shutter its doors. It’s not exactly an anomaly; it’s the third such closure in the state following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which triggered laws in the state that criminalize physicians who provide abortion care and make access to the procedure impossible.
As of April 1, 2024, West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell, Idaho, will no longer deliver infants. According to a statement on the hospital’s website, the closure was an outcome the institution “worked for years to avoid.” While West Valley Medical Center didn’t cite restrictive abortion laws as the reason for the closure, Dr. Kara Cadwallader, who is a family medicine physician in Idaho, told Salon in a phone interview that providers feel as if their “hands are tied” and they can’t do their jobs in a state where abortion is completely banned (with only a narrow exception in which an abortion is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman”) and where physicians face jail time for providing a standard part of care.
This is what Republican victories look like.
Owning the libs, one win at a time
Elections have consequences. This is just the latest step in the FAFO process for Idaho.
First, it was the clinics in the North Idaho, and now the rot is moving southward. More and more women and children will be affected by this attitude of anti humanism that focuses on declaring women property of the state.
Women in Idaho should be looking to move somewhere that doesn’t consider them owned by the legislature. Good luck to you if you’re stuck in Idaho. The scenery is beautiful, but the rights are contracting.
Women in Idaho
It’s not their sole responsibility to bare. Men should feel ashamed to live in the state and every father should be working OT to protect their daughters.
This is sad, and seems intentional by the GOP. If they can get people to leave states with shitty laws and force them to concentrate in a select few states then more states will end up red with the same amount of disproportionate representation. I personally think this is a broader plan to stay in power even as demographics trend away from supporting the GOP.
You are 100% correct. It is the tyranny of the minority, and as far as I can tell there are currently no viable solutions to deal with this issue.
Wyoming gets the same number of senators as CA. A few years back with COVID relos to TX I was getting hopeful we might see it turn progressive in my lifetime but things like this will make relo a non-starter. After all, who wants to live somewhere that operates like the Taliban?
Well, there’s one solution. It’s <redacted>
This was a good read on a very depressing topic. It will be shameful how bad things will have to become for women in Idaho, and some of the other Southern states the article referenced, before the right will ever see the error in their ways.
They will never see the error of their ways. It has literally never happened. The liberalization of society and the ostracizing of fundamentalism is the only thing that has ever had an appreciable affect. Punishing those in power who push these ideas into the mainstream is the solution.
I think with enough death and senseless loss things will change. The pendulum has to swing both ways eventually.
I try to have empathy but lately I’ve honestly run all out of fucks to give these people who live in a dumbass theocracy, even the ones who vote against it.
I still feel pretty terrible for all the people who vote against this shit but don’t have the means to leave that hellscape called Idaho.
blessed be.
I hope all the women who voted Republican in Idaho enjoy it.
