No matter your position on whether abortion should be legal, Idaho’s existing law is broken.
Before the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, Idaho had enacted a trigger law that would become effective on that day. The intention was to outlaw abortion in nearly all cases, with narrow exceptions for cases of rape or incest.
But when the court issued its ruling and the bill went into effect, it soon became clear it would do much more than that — including making basic, lifesaving care for women without viable pregnancies a felony.
