KIDK reported a federal judge ordered our wonderful state of Idaho to pay $380,000 to cover Planned Parenthood’s costs fighting yet another failed Idaho law regarding abortion. This amount, in addition to what Idaho already spent just defending the failed law, means we taxpayers have spent nearly $750,000 on the latest attempted abortion restrictions.
It is great our lawmakers follow their values and think they are helping make Idaho better, but they really need to get sound legal advice on how constitutional their proposed laws are, and especially if the laws are likely to survive court challenges.
A sickening quote came from Idaho State Attorney General’s Office spokesman Bob Cooper, who said he was pleased they only had to pay $380,000 (instead of the $550,000 sought by Planned Parenthood).
Hey Bob Cooper, we Idahoans would be pleased if the pot for legislature salaries was dinged for that $380,000. I know the legislators are not paid enormous sums, but if monetary damages from defending failed legislation were paid out from legislature salaries, I imagine they would research a little more before trying to legislate their morals on everyone else.
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Post Register on Friday gave a jeer to Kuna Senator Bill Sali for writing all this abortion legislation that keeps snaring Idaho into defending (and losing). They make a good point at laying blame with the bill writer, but even their statement of “Afraid to be tagged as pro-abortion, lawmakers went along” is where the real problem lies. The entire legislature is responsible for not finding their backbones and leaving Idaho taxpayers to defend unconsitutionally legislated morality. Surely Kuna has better to offer than Bill Sali to represent them.
Didn’t they pass another anti-abortion bill this session, or am I just thinking of that parental consent law? Parental consent seems reasonable.
Odds on this one getting challenged and overturned in the courts?