Full Idaho election results can be found at results.voteidaho.gov.
This result is a decisive affirmation that Idahoans want their state to remain a place where preborn children are protected, even after a campaign that drew nearly $10 million in spending from both sides.
This win belongs to the countless volunteers who knocked on doors, the churches that prayed and mobilized and the neighbors who showed up to vote. Pro-Life Utah is so grateful for their tireless effort to inform Idaho voters about the dangers of Prop 1.
Voters weighed an initiative that would have established a right to kill preborn children until viability, a term it never fully defined, with an “extraordinary medical measures” standard that could have legalized abortion into the seventh month of pregnancy and beyond. Idahoans were right in voting to keep clear boundaries that protect preborn children from barbaric procedures that starve, poison and dismember them.
Idaho law already protects treatment for mothers with conditions that threaten their lives and physical health, and defers to a physician’s good-faith judgment. It protects women and their health without sacrificing the lives of preborn children.
Idaho voters rejected this measure, but it will not be the last attempt. Pro-abortion groups that back measures like Prop 1 are likely to try again, in Idaho and in other states. Abortion measures were also on the ballot this year in Nevada, Virginia and Missouri, and those states chose not to protect preborn lives.
While we celebrate, we also stay vigilant. Utah should not assume it is immune. Utahns need to start countering false narratives now, before abortion extremism takes over our state.
Pro-Life Utah urges Utahns to take action before extreme pro-abortion initiatives make their way onto our ballots:
Have the hard conversations. Talk with family and friends about what Utah law actually says and what abortion actually does, including our pro-life trigger law, which is currently held up in courts. Correct claims that do not hold up. Testify about the sanctity of life in church meetings, attend pro-life rallies and speak in legislative committee hearings.
Serve mothers, children and families. Volunteer, donate or support organizations that help women facing unexpected pregnancies and families in need. Pro-Life Utah has opportunities to serve in ways that fit your skills, whether that is providing personal support to women, creating social media content, writing for our website or something else.
Vote pro-life first. Make the protection of preborn children a top priority at the ballot box, and encourage your legislators to do the same.
Protecting life takes more than one election. It takes neighbors who show up for one another and have hard conversations every day. Pro-Life Utah will continue providing material, financial and emotional support so no woman feels abortion is her only choice. We invite every Utahn, Idahoan and neighbor across the country to join us in caring for mothers and children.
Today, we celebrate. Tomorrow, we get back to work.
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