PVP in the News
The national media spotlight is on Idaho. For better or worse. It seems that Idaho is the cautionary tale on why legislating pregnancy is a bad idea.
2025
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Women tell stories of their abortions for Idaho’s Pro-Voice Project
Feb. 27, 2025 | OPB
Abortion is illegal in Idaho, which borders Oregon to the east. For years leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, women’s health advocates warned that maternal care and abortion services were part of an intrinsically woven set of OB/GYN care that women’s health depended on.
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‘Behind Every Ban Is a Body’: Idaho Activists Bring Abortion Truths to NYC Theater
June 17, 2025 | Ms.
“One Body changes the conversation around reproductive rights because it does what headlines and legislation can’t: It humanizes the fight,” said Quintano. “In a climate where policy debates erase people, One Body centers real stories…”
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Idahoans Launch Ballot Initiative to Safeguard Reproductive Rights
July 3, 2025 | Ms.
At Saturday’s rally, community members shared personal testimonies, laying bare how Idaho’s abortion bans have endangered families. “My pregnancy turned into a medical emergency, but because of Idaho’s law, I was told to wait until I was worse. My life was put in danger simply because politicians wrote a law that ignored medical realities.”
2024
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The impact of abortion bans on Idaho residents and healthcare
Feb. 15, 2024 | The Arbiter
“So this isn’t just affecting people seeking abortions. And now it isn’t just affecting people who are pregnant. It is affecting all people here who need reproductive health care. We’ve lost access.”
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Idahoans in rural Sandpoint reflect on a year without labor and delivery services
Mar. 11, 2024 | The Spokesman Review
“The laws and the Legislature are preventing people from having families because of the fear that something could go horribly wrong. Not only can you have a loss of pregnancy, which is incredibly sad, but you could potentially lose your life as a pregnant woman in Idaho”
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‘Idaho’s seen as a war zone’: the lone abortion activist defying militias and the far right
Mar. 12, 2024 | The Guardian
“We can’t get complacent, and when people hear abortion stories from their next-door neighbor or their sister-in-law, or their son’s preschool teacher, it is a powerful way to remind people that politics are affecting you every day.”
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Exhibit aims to begin reproductive healthcare conversation
May 10, 2024 | Bonner County Daily Bee
“Worth of a Woman includes personal stories from women who previously gave birth at Bonner General Health, as well as perspectives and statistics related to maternal mortality, legal barriers to care, the undervaluing of reproductive health, and more.”
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Women in Sandpoint advocate for better access to reproductive healthcare
May 12, 2024 | KXLY
"The fear is that the longer we go without this kind of care, the more that just becomes normal and people accept it as just the way things are.”
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North Idaho Has Drifted to the Extreme Right. One Republican Thinks It’s Hit Its Limit.
May 19, 2024 | Politico
“We can all agree that we want to be able to birth babies in this community, that we want women to have access close by to all kinds of reproductive health care, not just obstetrics. We’ve lost all of that here.”
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One person fights against the criminalization of abortion in Idaho
June 21, 2024 | Le Devoir
“This is the objective of our project: to plow the soil to make it more fertile for messages calling for abortion to be considered health care and a human right. We also want to show that it is okay to speak positively about it and even to put up a sign on your property calling for respect for this right.”
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Idaho's OB-GYN exodus throws women in rural towns into a care void
June 25, 2024 | Idaho Capital Sun
“It sure was a whole level of stress that just added on because I had so much further to transport. Three years ago I would have been 10 minutes away from my appointment, not 60 minutes away.”
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The U.S. Supreme court will allow emergency abortions in Idaho—for now
June 26, 2024 | The Spokesman Review
“We’re not talking about the bigger issues here. We’re just fighting for scraps.”
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The World Show with Yalda Hakim
June 27, 2024 | Sky News
“Abortion is healthcare—in so many instances. And it’s impossible to list all of the instances in which abortion is necessary as healthcare.”
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What's the biggest presidential issue outside of the economy?
June 27, 2024 | Idaho News 6
“Here in North Idaho… we’ve lost four OBGYNs in the past year, a labor and delivery unit closed. We know the impact of these abortion bans and how they affect health care offerings here.”
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Healthcare providers view Supreme Court's Idaho abortion ruling as a delayed win
June 27, 2024 | KXLY
"So, how much longer are we going to have go? Another year to try and figure out if federal law trumps state law? It blows my mind that this is not a ready, discernible answer.”
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North Idaho activist responds to abortion case Supreme Court leak
June 27, 2024 | KHQ
"[W]e will take a win where we can get it and on the surface it feels like a win, but really it's not. It's kicking the can down the road.”
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SCOTUS has ruled on EMTALA
June 28, 2024 | Feminist Buzzkills
Abortion Access Front’s Lizz Winstead and Moji Alawode-El break down the decision with Stephanie Toti, Jen Jackson Quintano, Dr. Caitlin Gustafson and Ryan Hamilton.
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Q&A: Who's fighting for abortion rights in Idaho?
July 12, 2024 | The Daily Yonder
“Suddenly, people who were previously unwilling to talk about abortion were now willing to address how ‘pro-life’ laws might actually make life more fraught and dangerous.“
2023
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When to Leave
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Idaho hospital closes its maternity ward, citing the state’s ‘political climate’
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Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban
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Idaho hospital says it is ending labor and delivery services amid 'political climate'
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As Bonner County’s only labor hospital prepares to close, hundreds show up for ‘unhappy hour’ to grieve and share their fears
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Idaho’s strict abortion laws create uncertainty for OB-GYNs in the state
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Idaho criminalizes helping minors travel out of state to get an abortion
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No OB-GYNs left in town: what came after Idaho’s assault on abortion
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Pregnant with no OB-GYNs around: In Idaho, maternity care became a casualty of its abortion ban
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'Abortion Diaries': play to spotlight Boise, Idaho abortion stories
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Why Idaho women are sharing their abortion stories
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The Bear at the End of the Tunnel
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Faced with abortion ban, an Idaho doctor begged hospital for help with key decision
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In Idaho, Extremists Have Created a Culture of Fear Around Pregnancy
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