Idaho GOP will not criminalize miscarriage

[jmowreader]

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/07/16/no-exception-for-life-of-mother-included-in-idaho-gops-abortion-platform-language/

The 2022 Idaho GOP convention has ended, and it turned out about as well as expected.

The term "atrocity" comes to mind.

Get to know the name of Scott Herndon well. Herndon is an extremist from Bonner County who makes Paul Hill and Scott Roeder seem sweet and gentle. If you've ever been to Idaho's Kootenai County Fair you'll have seen a HUGE booth advocating the abolition of abortion. Herndon and his family run it. He's currently running unopposed for the state Senate, having unseated a long-term senator in the 2022 primary.

Well...Herndon cooked up a plank to the party platform that is so extreme not only does it not allow abortion to save the mother's life, it also criminalizes miscarriage. Fortunately slightly cooler heads prevailed and they amended Herndon's crap to take out the miscarriage crime. However, women will still die of ectopic pregnancies here.

In slightly good news, the platform no longer declares President Biden didn't win the election.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Holy crap these people are insane.

[Aristus]

21. "She miscarried because she didn't receive proper pre-natal care!"

"Well, we don't want to go creatin' no nanny-state, now do we?"

[dweller]

2. How fucking benevolent

of repug pigs …


✌🏻

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. "Party Of Life".

Fuck all of you puke scum. Fuck you, Herndon.

[jmowreader]

7. In more ways than one

Every summer they have an event up there called Festival at Sandpoint. They bring in good bands - https://www.festivalatsandpoint.com/past-headliners will show you the list of everyone who's ever played this - and have a really nice couple of weekends.

Many of the artists who they hire have an ironclad rule: no guns in the audience.

Naturally, Herndon sued to force the organizers to allow guns on the property - which, if he would have succeeded, would have killed the festival.

You know you're scum when you need to be armed to watch a concert.

[EnergizedLib]

4. How?

Just how can it be permitted that women cannot terminate an ectopic pregnancy?

Dobbs is on the podium with Dred Scott and Korematsu as the worst cases ever issued by the court.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. We shall call them

pussies.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Weekly Met Esorts will be required to provecontrol The Repbulicam mle morons/

[In It to Win It]

8. How gracious of them

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Good for Idaho, but lots of other states WILL

criminalize miscarriage.

[Iris]

10. How is that even possible? Just arrest every woman who miscarries?

I opted out of childbearing but have many friends who miscarried, sometimes 2-3 times, before completing their families.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Oh, yes, it will happen.

Romania is the model that those states will follow. Abortion banned, contraception banned, women's cycles closely followed.

[Turbineguy]

11. You know when you are in a parking lot

and you jump out of the way of a speeding car and say, "Thanks for not running me over!"?

[Yavin4]

13. Idaho should not be a state.

It's mostly a gigantic land mass with a few people. It has 1/5 of the population of Minnesota, and only 1 million more people than Washington DC, which isn't a state.

Having so few people is a breeding ground for crazy people with whacky beliefs like these idiots at the GOP convention. We may mock them, but they get 2 senators who have the power to block critical legislation that improves our lives and protects our rights.

Our democratic experiment is failing.

[jmowreader]

14. It's not exactly a breeding ground

More like a gathering place. Huge numbers of serious RWNJs have left good states like California and moved to eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

In the process they’ve turned this place into California without liberals.

[Cosmocat]

16. YEP

nm

[Scrivener7]

15. Women in red states, it's really time to think about moving. It's not safe to live there.

And it's time for the Federal government to stop giving to taker states that are abusive toward 51% of their populations.

[Demovictory9]

17. Sick aholes

[Irish_Dem]

18. In the 21st century US, ectopic pregnancies will be a death sentence for women.

[AngryOldDem]

19. Good Christ.

I’d be in jail is this asshole had his way. I’ve had two, one of which nearly killed me.

We are truly in another Dark Ages. I fully expect some states to make a woman and her doctor prove the circumstances concerning a miscarriage. This is a minor victory, at best.

Wait, don’t tell me. These clowns think etopic pregnancies can be removed and inplanted into the uterus, amirite?

[jmowreader]

20. Of course they do!

In Ceaucescu’s Romania the secret police investigated all miscarriages as if they were illegal abortions. Communist secret police are even less friendly than they’re portrayed in the movies.

I figure that if we keep going down Romania’s path we’ll get Romania’s results: after a couple years of increased childbirth we’ll see a very steep decline because penis-in-vagina sex will become a thing of the past for people who don’t want children.

[AngryOldDem]

22. These "right-to-lifers" refuse to see the impact of this.

Declining population rates — when is what they also rail against. When both young men and young women seriously looking into sterilization, what else could be the result?

There are so many more potential unintended consequences here. Well, the right wanted it, and they got it.

[BlueIdaho]

23. Crazy - just not that Crazy...

As a Democrat residing in Idaho, let me apologize for the insanity of our John Birch loving GQP party.

[jmowreader]

24. Did you see what they installed as their new chair?

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2022/07/16/rep-dorothy-moon-becomes-new-chairwoman-of-idaho-republican-party/

Rep. Dorothy Moon does not believe President Biden is legitimate, and her equally insane husband is a national director of the John Birch Society.