Author: unitedfamilies

Idaho passed the Defense of Life Act in 2020 to protect the lives of women and their unborn children. The law officially became enforceable in June 2022, when the Supreme Court ruled Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the people and their elected representatives in the states have the power to pass pro-life laws. Idahoans stand to protect life, and our law is a reflection of their will. But the Biden administration didn’t care. A couple of months after Dobbs gave this decision-making power back to the states, the administration manipulated a federal law to say we still don’t have that power. The Justice Department sued Idaho, claiming that a federal law — the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) — supersedes our own law and in fact even forces emergency room doctors to perform abortions.

The Turnaway Study found that of women who give birth after being denied abortion, 91% raise their children themselves (9% place for adoption). Of those who raise their children themselves, 91% emotionally bond to their babies normally, and 98% say they no longer wish they’d gotten an abortion.

The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal the state’s pro-life law which protects almost all unborn children. The repeal effort now heads to the state Senate – also controlled by Republicans – which can vote on it no earlier than Wednesday, May 1.