We used to have a perfectly good word for a person who is pregnant. That word was used for millennia, too.
Posted on 08/14/2022 7:17:13 PM PDT by Morgana
daho's strict abortion restrictions will be allowed to take effect while legal challenges over the laws play out in court, the Idaho Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
A doctor and a regional Planned Parenthood affiliate sued the state earlier this year over three anti-abortion laws, all of which were designed to take effect this year now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
Under the ruling, a near-total criminalizing of all abortions will take effect on Aug. 25. The law will still allow doctors to defend themselves at trial by claiming the abortion was done to save the pregnant person's life.
Another law is also going into effect that allows potential relatives of an embryo or fetus to sue abortion providers for up to $20,000 within four years of an abortion. Rapists cannot sue under the law, but a rapist's family members would be able to sue.
Planned Parenthood has also sued over a third strict ban criminalizing abortions done after six weeks of gestation except for in cases where it was needed to save a pregnant person's life or done because of rape or incest. That law was set to take effect Aug. 19.
Dr. Caitlin Gustafson and Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky filed three lawsuits over each of the laws. The Idaho Supreme Court consolidated those cases into one as part of Friday's ruling.
Planned Parenthood and the doctor failed to show that allowing enforcement of the laws would cause "irreparable harm," the Idaho Supreme Court found. The high court said the plaintiffs also didn't have evidence that they had a "clear right" to a remedy, or that they were likely to win on the merits of the case.
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The war against evil continues. Don’t stop fighting.
We used to have a perfectly good word for a person who is pregnant. That word was used for millennia, too.
an apparent abortion advocate commercial on TV tonight whinging about ‘all the many women who have serious health complications during childbirth’, and showing a very pregnant belly through the commercial as if to insinuate women should not have to ‘face such risks and complications from abortions’
I’m predicting we are going to see more and m ore commercials slamming the right for taking away their ‘right’ to murder their unborns so that they don’t have to ‘face the consequences of pregnancy’
Thank you Idaho Supreme Court! Keep up the good work! The rest of us, keep praying!
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