1y ago

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

www.propublica.org Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.

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Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.

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1y ago

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

www.propublica.org /article/idaho-banned-abortion-support-pregnancies-families

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1y ago

Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.

www.propublica.org /article/idaho-banned-abortion-support-pregnancies-families

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“Idaho has some work to do,” Crane said. “Be patient with us.”
Why the hell should anyone be patient? If they weren't ready for the law, they shouldn't have enacted it.
- Tons of Idaho women tried to be patients, but then the lunatic politicians made medicine illegal

I remember listening to interviews of people after Roe was overturned. One younger sounding woman said "now that it's overturned, we can finally turn to getting support and healthcare for the mothers and newborns".
I wonder what that woman is thinking right now. What issue is she championing now.
- She's thinking nothing because her brain is just a .wav file of the latest Fox News broadcast and whatever her psycho preacher said last Sunday.
  
  So something along the the lines of, "We should be friends with Russia"?
- She's probably thinking that there is still more abortion to get banned, so that will have to wait.
  Actually helping parents and newborns apparently needs to wait. As can policies that are actually effective at reducing abortion rates such as financial support for the pregnant, access to contraception and sex ed, childcare, etc. For some reason, all that couldn't happen before overturning Roe. For some reason.
  
  I'm starting to suspect maybe the anti abortionists just want to subjugate women... 🤔

Am I just biased or right wingers almost never have anything nice to offer to people?
- Depends if you are rich or not
- I haven't seen a single good thing that actually benefits all Americans.
- Policies for the rich. But they use wedge issues like abortion and now “woke” to get elected.

Did we even really need the article?
- I know what you mean, but we absolutely do, we have to hold our politicians accountable and the press is just one of those ways. I know they're probably not changing minds but this is part of transparency.
  
  Of course

It isn’t about saving babies, or saving women, or any of that crap. It’s about control. Always has been.

Pro-life???? Not so much. Anti-women and kids.

As we all should've known to begin with, you want less abortions you give more support to people having children. Banning abortions just pushes more kids into a society that doesn't care about them except when it's sometimes convenient politically. If you give mothers free childcare and remove the barriers to return to a normal life after childbirth you'll see a downturn in abortions as the alternatives are less miserable for most people. If you ban abortions you force women already in bad circumstances into worse ones.

Funny how reality caught up to the memes.. well.. not funny, but you get it.
- I'm waiting for the memes where people just start killing Republican officials.

I am the opposite of surprised!

Yet your primary goal in this thread was to focus on the pregnancy as a punishment for bad behavior.
Weird how you think like that.
If not letting someone take of your body to support their life is absolutely and indelibly murder, then ever single person who dies waiting for an organ transplant you did not offer to them is your victim. Neat. On top of being a proud misogynist, you're also a killer.

- It's amazing the way "pro-lifers" don't actually believe in a right to life. At all.
  This right here is what they really care about -- judging and punishing people for having sex. They view pregnancy as a consequence and so abortion is escaping a consequence. It has nothing to do with the rights of the fetus, just persecuting the uterus.
  Because, after all, if you truly believed that pregnancy were a consequence, it would mean that you believe abortion should be legal for anyone that didn't take action to "deserve" the pregnancy. It means the right to life is contingent on the choices made or not made by the pregnant person. And a right that can be washed away by the choices made by a stranger is no right at all.
  You just know if this guy got someone pregnant, he'd be driving them straight to the abortion clinic even if was across the country.
  
  it would mean that you believe abortion should be legal
  Murder should never be legal. End of discussion.

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