A man is suing three women for wrongful death, alleging they helped his now ex-wife end her pregnancy
At the end of this month, an Idaho labor and delivery unit will shutter its doors. It’s not exactly an anomaly; it’s the third such closure in the state following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which triggered laws in the state that criminalize physicians who provide abortion care and make access to the procedure impossible.
As of April 1, 2024, West Valley Medical Center in Caldwell, Idaho, will no longer deliver infants. According to a statement on the hospital’s website, the closure was an outcome the institution “worked for years to avoid.” While West Valley Medical Center didn’t cite restrictive abortion laws as the reason for the closure, Dr. Kara Cadwallader, who is a family medicine physician in Idaho, told Salon in a phone interview that providers feel as if their “hands are tied” and they can’t do their jobs in a state where abortion is completely banned (with only a narrow exception in which an abortion is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman”) and where physicians face jail time for providing a standard part of care.
This was a good read on a very depressing topic. It will be shameful how bad things will have to become for women in Idaho, and some of the other Southern states the article referenced, before the right will ever see the error in their ways.
They will never see the error of their ways. It has literally never happened. The liberalization of society and the ostracizing of fundamentalism is the only thing that has ever had an appreciable affect. Punishing those in power who push these ideas into the mainstream is the solution.
I think with enough death and senseless loss things will change. The pendulum has to swing both ways eventually.
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