Idaho asked the Supreme Court Monday to stay a lower court injunction, or to take up its case directly, as it attempts to fend off the Biden administration’s challenge of the state’s abortion ban.
When you visit Idaho be sure to set your clock back to the Middle Ages.
The messaging of the pro-life movement is a hypocritical and rhetorical trick.
So that would be
It’ll either be 5-4, allowing the ban to go forward under the auspices of States’ rights, or they will punt and not take the case.
The Middle Ages (at least in Europe) were much more lenient. Though medical care was much, much worse, so it’s kind of a trade-off.
Give 'em time. They’ve already started chasing the OB-GYNs out, then they’ll start working on the GPs, nurse-practitioners and such.
But not to worry, they’ll still have their Veterinarians and Vet Techs (for at least a while longer… 
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But how will Idaho kill women quicker unless the law is allowed to go forward immediately? Yeah, I said it; this is a misogynous law that they are asking be allowed to move forward immediately.
Wrong state
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Very nice young couple - friends of my kids - just moved back (<1 month) to California from Idaho for exactly this reason. They are going to have children as soon as they can - looking forward to it. They are afraid of the quality of care they could get in Idaho if there are issues during pregnancy.
So they’ll have access to Ivermectin for the next Covid outbreak.
Idaho is placing its sovereign interest in protecting innocent human life above that of a woman who may have sinned.
If this goes into effect, obstetricians will rightfully flee the state, leaving Idahoans without any medical care during pregnancy.
Republican Party pro-life hypocrisy at its best. Once a baby is born, they and the parents (really moms) are on their own. That’s life…
GD politicians tell Medical Doctors how to do their jobs. Doctors can move.
the state rails against the Ninth Circuit’s “unreasoned order,” its “pulling the case away from a panel that had thoroughly considered the merits of Idaho’s stay application” and the federal government’s “unauthorized power grab.”
So the decision rendered by a panel of three Trump nominated judges has more judicial merit than the 7-4 decision of the Chief Judge and ten randomly selected judges. You know our judicial system is broken when the decision of 3 out of the 29 justices in the 9th Circuit can be reversed by a much larger random panel.
Hopefully next year 100 million women will vote out every Republican for the next two decades.
It’s easy to joke, but Idaho’s intransigence affects more than just people who live there on purpose.
I have family in eastern Oregon. The closest hospital with a NICU is in Boise. The thought that if a high risk pregnancy goes south you can’t get the care you need at the closest hospital is really scary.
They already are (From The Guardian, Aug 22, 2023(:
No OB-GYNs left in town: what came after Idaho’s assault on abortion
The fear beset doctors and is pushing them out.
Dr Amelia Huntsberger moved to Sandpoint 11 years ago with her husband, planning to put down roots, build a medical practice and stay through retirement. She’s an OB-GYN, her husband an emergency room doctor. They both grew up in smaller cities in the north-western United States, so Sandpoint was a natural fit.
This July, the Huntsbergers’ home on a winding road on the edge of town was filled with moving boxes.
By the end of summer, they will be gone, starting over in Oregon, starting over with new jobs and new schools for their three kids, practicing medicine in a state that doesn’t leave them vulnerable to arrest or lawsuits for saving their patients’ lives. This is not what they wanted or planned, but as Huntsberger explains through intermittent tears across her patio table, leaving Idaho became their only way forward.
“Yeah, this is a conservative state. We knew that when we moved here. But it’s become very extreme. We now have some of the most extreme examples of government interference in healthcare that exists across the country,” says Huntsberger. “And there’s that irony – we are a liberty state: ‘You do you. I’ll do what I do.’ Except if you have a uterus and it’s something related to healthcare, then the government suddenly has a lot to say, without bothering to understand what they’re legislating. There’s some real willful ignorance here.”
It has seemed, she says, like a willful act on the part of lawmakers to fail to understand the repercussions of the laws they have enacted. That impact falls most heavily on women and families, and particularly on those who don’t have a lot of money or power.
You have to wonder if the red state attacks on abortion and women will have anti-economic development consequences. What even middle of the road entrepreneurs and workers would want to live in such a backwards state?