In Idaho, a nuanced battle is unfolding, the heart of which revolves around the state's broad abortion bans and its medical exemptions. A group of courageous women and their physicians are challenging the state's stringent laws by bringing their personal trials and tribulations to court. It's a poignant saga, unfolding not in grand headlines and prime-time news bullets, but in the tear-streaked faces of innocent women and the lines etched deep into their physicians' faces.
When these Idahoan women discovered their pregnancies were high-risk and that their fetuses were unlikely to survive birth, they were denied the option of safe and legal abortion procedures in their own state. Their only alternative was to brave the journey to Oregon or Washington, traversing the invisible border lines between what's legal, what's moral, and most importantly, what is right for them and their unborn children.
