In the past month, two hospitals in Idaho have announced they will soon stop providing labor and delivery services. The closures for both hospitals cite difficulties leading to the decision, including a declining birth rate in the state of Idaho and in their respective regions. Bonner General Health in Northern Idaho…
Idaho Gov. Brad Little will soon decide on whether to sign a bill aimed at addressing physicians’ fears about being prosecuted under Idaho’s abortion laws.
Just one day after it passed almost unanimously in the House of Representatives, the Senate State Affairs Committee printed House Bill 374 and sent it to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon where it passed in a 26-7 vote.
A rural hospital in northern Idaho will stop delivering babies or providing other obstetrical care, citing a shifting legal climate in which recently enacted state laws could subject physicians to prosecution for providing abortions, among other reasons.
A hospital in northern Idaho will stop delivering babies or providing other obstetrical care, citing a shifting legal climate and the state's new abortion laws.
A rural hospital in northern Idaho will stop delivering babies or providing other obstetrical care, citing a shifting legal climate in which recently enacted state laws could subject physicians to prosecution for providing abortions, among other reasons. Bonner General Health in Sandpoint will discontinue obstetrical services in mid-May. It also cited a decreasing number of deliveries and a loss of doctors among other factors in its decision.