As a result of Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, opponents sued, lost in court, and have taken their message directly to the public in pursuit of a ballot initiative creating a right to abortion. This initiative will appear on November’s ballot as Proposition 1: The Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act (RFPA). Proponents of Proposition 1 state that it’s necessary to establish rights to medical privacy, protect women from dangerous healthcare that operates in the shadows, indemnify doctors who provide abortion, and keep Idaho’s obstetric infrastructure intact. I would like to argue that even if these were good-faith objectives of the RFPA, it does not accomplish those goals.
