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.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    “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.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    741·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • GreenMario@lemm.ee
      481·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • admiralteal@kbin.social
      20·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • DrPop@lemmy.one
      18·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • emax_gomax@lemmy.world
    102·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • admiralteal@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • admiralteal@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.