Idaho lieutenant governor McGeachin wants harshest US abortion ban

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Idaho lieutenant governor wants harshest US abortion ban

By KEITH RIDLER
May 9, 2022

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin on Monday demanded that Republican Gov. Brad Little call a special legislative session to eliminate rape and incest as legal exceptions to Idaho’s abortion law.

The Idaho law will go into effect if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.

McGeachin is running against Little in the Idaho Republican gubernatorial primary and in a statement said the potential Idaho law is insufficient because of numerous exceptions. Besides rape and incest, it also allows abortions to save mothers’ lives.

“It is shameful that Idaho’s abortion laws are not the most pro-life in our country,” said McGeachin, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump. “No child should ever be murdered because of the circumstances surrounding his or her conception.”

Little in 2020 signed the so-called trigger law put forward by a group called Idaho Chooses Life, which has endorsed Little.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-health-donald-trump-brad-little-df7171ab21745b337a6ea0e42877afbe

[Skittles]

1. these same folk thought mask mandates were TYRANNY

the hypocrisy is mind-boggling

[world wide wally]

2. Idaho has been sick for a long time.

Pretty... but sick.

[Buckeyeblue]

6. Yes. A beautiful state filled with ugly people

[RKP5637]

3. Control freaks on steroids!!! n/t

[Thomas Hurt]

4. unspoken after: "surrounding his or her conception"...

now after they are born we don't give a fuck. Let them starve for all we care.

Usual moral-scold, christofascist hypocrisy.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. See? She has the certificate to prove she's a fucking lunatic.

[brooklynite]

7. "Harshest" wouldn't be won by eliminating exemptions....

It would require adding to the legal penalties.

[In It to Win It]

8. Isn't this the same person who would do stupid shit anytime the governor would leave the state?

[hoosierspud]

9. Yes, it is.

She's certifiably insane. We live a couple miles from the ID-WA line. We used to go over there quite a bit to the local businesses and restaurants, but ever since COVID hit, we try to avoid that place. (Not that Eastern Washington is a hotbed of liberalism).