Why should you vote yes on Prop 1? Here's why

On March 24, 2020, Gov. Brad Little signed a trigger law which went into effect in June 2022. when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that ensured a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. The law banned abortions in Idaho except in cases of rape, incest and the mother’s life. The ramifications are well known.

Doctors facing jail or malpractice fled the state. Legislators refused to modify Idaho’s anti-abortion law. Senator Scott Herndon, a born-again Christian Californian who opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest introduced bills in the Legislature to reflect his views. Doctors and the Idaho Medical Association lobbied to enact a small health exception but were shut down by Dorothy Moon, chair of the Idaho GOP, who “accused the Medical Association of being a progressive etrade association” and said the doctors had been educated in “far left educational institutions."

Justice Elena Kagan recently told the NYU School of Law that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority may not stop at abortion rights but use the same reasoning used in the dismantling of abortion rights: The argument that it is not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition."

BETH ALLEN

Sandpoint