An initiative on the November ballot in Idaho is drawing more television advertising that I can remember for any issue in the past thirty years. One side wants to eliminate the restrictive abortion law enacted in Idaho after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe decision; the other side wants the restrictive law to remain.\u00a0 I fail to understand the reasoning behind government restrictions on medical care for pregnant women when other medical care is entrusted to the patient and the physician. \u00a0The Idaho law represents State enforcement of a religious belief in a nation where religious beliefs and practices are supposed to be free from government interference.\u00a0 The necessity of abortion to protect the physical or mental health of a woman should be a personal decision after consultation with a medical professional.\u00a0 Questions of faith should be addressed by the persons involved without interference from the government.\u00a0 If one\u2019s religious beliefs prohibit an abortion then she should act accordingly.\u00a0 Keep the government out of the bedroom and the hospital bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An initiative on the November ballot in Idaho is drawing more television advertising that I can remember for any issue in the past thirty years. One side wants to eliminate the restrictive abortion law enacted in Idaho after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe decision; the other side wants the restrictive law to remain.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n