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Idaho health care providers can refer patients for abortions out of state, judge rules

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/01/idaho-health-care-providers-abortions-out-of-state-00109334

District Judge B. Lynn Winmill called it a First Amendment issue.

Idaho health care providers can refer patients for abortions out of state, judge rules

A federal judge has ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services, rejecting the state attorney general’s interpretation of Idaho’s abortion ban.

7 comments

YoBuckStopsHere

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Colorado, the individual freedom state, will assist. It's wrong that any state that forces women to get pregnant and doesn't pay that woman $10K a year per child to cover it.

lagomorphlecture

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I don't disagree that it's wrong to force women into what essentially amounts as slavery, but where do you come up with paying them $10k per year? First, you can't raise a kid on that. Second, why would the government pay you? If you have a child voluntarily you shouldn't have to be paid. If you're having a child under duress, paying you doesn't fix the wrong that has been done to you.

MasterObee

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Who's forcing women to get pregnant?

Edit: I'm genuinely confused, was the original comment just a typo that I'm not understanding?

Blackbeard

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The party of freeze peach strikes again.

Rmcc73

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Fuck, this is the worst dystopia.

MasterObee

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If a state makes abortion restrictions, the least they can do is give the patient resources to go somewhere where it's legal, and have absolutely 0 laws that restrict them from going to another state to get an abortion.

Grumble

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Good news: here in Newport, WA, our hospital has re-opened the birthing center, and a second clinic is under construction. I assume a lot of the patients that we'll get will be from Idaho's Boundary and Bonner counties.