Prop 1 would return Idaho to the status it had for 50 years, hardly extreme. On the other hand, Idaho’s 4-year old abortion ban is extreme because it naively treats every pregnancy as perfect, ignoring the fact that pregnancies can go wrong, sometimes horribly wrong to the point that they can kill the mother or leave her unable to become pregnant again. No doctor wants to be put in the position that they can’t help their patient until that patient’s death is imminent. So they leave, roughly 40% of Idaho Ob/Gyns have abandoned their practice since the new ban went into effect, leaving women’s health care in Idaho woefully inadequate. That’s why so many doctors, pro-lifers, Catholics, LDS and others support Prop 1. They didn’t suddenly change their beliefs and become extremist; they just care about women.
Ralph Mossman
Driggs