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.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.