Letter to the Editor published in the Idaho Statesman 2/2015.
Idaho Politicians think Women are Stupid!!!!
Idaho lawmakers are on a roll. After introducing a bill last week aimed at restricting safe and legal medical abortions, the Senate Health & Welfare Committee introduced SB 1102 that would mandate physicians have admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of where an abortion is performed. Why not 50 or 75 miles or some other arbitrary number?
Politicians MUST think women are stupid if they think women want them playing doctor and interfering in their private decisions. Enough is enough. Now is the time for all of us (yes,men and women) to tell our elected officials to leave these decisions with a woman, her doctor and her family.
These bills would impact low-income women and rural women - the women with the least access to care - the hardest hit by making it more difficult for them to access safe, legal abortion care.
Write, call or e-mail your legislators now and tell them these are personal, private decisions that should only be made between a woman, her family and her doctor. Better yet, testify against this bill in person if you can.