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Source: Associated Press
Idaho governor signs abortion ban modeled on Texas law
By KEITH RIDLER
March 23, 2022
BOISE, Idaho (AP) Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allowing it to be enforced through lawsuits to avoid constitutional court challenges.
Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law the measure that allows people who would have been family members to sue a doctor who performs an abortion after cardiac activity is detected in an embryo. Still he said he had concerns about whether the law was constitutional.
I stand in solidarity with all Idahoans who seek to protect the lives of preborn babies, Little wrote in a letter to Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is also president of the Senate.
Yet he also noted: While I support the pro-life policy in this legislation, I fear the novel civil enforcement mechanism will in short order be proven both unconstitutional and unwise.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/idaho-abortion-ban-law-6eec10650b51c2b9dc98607d13cd8f40
Skittles
(152,963 posts)but signs it anyway
fucking repuke
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)zygote, embryo, fetus.
Laws based on wishful relabeling.
Most people do not announce their pregnancies until after the first trimester because that's when most miscarriages occur ('spontaneous abortion' is the medical term).
They've cleverly labeled contraceptives as abortifacients, and they're after "mixed" marriages, too.
No one is forcing them to have abortions, pay for abortions, use birth control, or marry anyone they don't want to. Yet they want to force their narrow half assed religious control over, well, everyone else. They're right, we're wrong, and they decide. Um, no.
musette_sf
(10,184 posts)requires that all actual living persons be classified as pre-dead corpses.
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)Wont spend a dime there. Will drive around it if I have to.