It goes well beyond reasonable exceptions
Prop 1 writes a right to abortion “up to fetal viability” into Idaho law — long past the point a baby can feel pain.
Proposition 1
It has a reassuring name.
Take a Second Look.
The “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” is on your ballot. Read what it would actually change in Idaho law — then decide.
What Prop 1 would actually do
It quietly redefines “viability”
Idaho law has understood fetal viability as roughly 20 to 24 weeks. Prop 1 redefines it as a “significant likelihood of sustained survival … without extraordinary medical measures,” which would authorize late-term abortions into the seventh or eighth month.
It overrides parental consent
Prop 1 creates the right for “every person” regardless of age. Abortion would become the only procedure performed on a minor girl without her parents’ permission.
It lets non-doctors perform abortions
Prop 1 requires only consultation with a “health care provider,” defined broadly enough to include people who are not physicians — gutting women’s health protections.
Where this would put Idaho
Idaho joins other states with commonsense early pregnancy limits. Prop 1 would align us with states that allow abortion to viability — or have no statutory gestational limit at all.
(data from Guttmacher Institute)
You can believe these decisions are personal — and still believe there should be commonsense limits.
Take a second look. Make a plan. Vote NO on Proposition 1.
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