Defending Idaho's Anti-Abortion Law
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Attorney Josh Turner joins to podcast to discuss the legal path forward to defend conservative states and their abortion restrictions.
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| 0:16.7 | All right, we're live on the Conversations That Matter podcast. We have a special guest with us today who hasn't been on the podcast before. Mr. Josh Turner and he is the chief of constitutional policy in the Idaho's AG's office. He's been working on some pro-life legislation defending it. |
| 0:21.4 | And we're going to talk to him today about how to go about defending pro-life |
| 0:27.3 | legislation, not just in Idaho, but in the current paradigm where states are, conservative states, are taking it upon themselves to limit abortion. |
| 0:35.8 | How can they do that whether it's a Trump presidency or a Harris presidency? |
| 0:39.7 | So with that, Josh, thank you so much for being willing to talk to me and joining the podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, glad to be here, John. |
| 0:47.0 | So let's start with the beginning here. |
| 0:51.0 | Idaho has a law that is being called by some at least an abortion ban. |
| 0:55.6 | What does it do? Does it actually ban abortion? I guess would be the first question. |
| 1:00.8 | How does it limit abortion if it doesn't completely ban it? |
| 1:04.8 | And then what are some of the things that pro-choice or pro-abortion advocates are saying |
| 1:10.9 | to try to discredit it and bring legal challenges against it. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, so after the Dobbs decision, which was the Supreme Court's decision that overturned |
| 1:20.8 | Roe v. Wade and effectively said states have the authority to regulate |
| 1:28.8 | on the issue of abortion. There is no federal constitutional right to an abortion. |
| 1:34.6 | So it put the issue back into state control. |
| 1:40.1 | The state of Idaho had a law on the books called a trigger law that the legislator said if |
| 1:47.0 | Roe v. Wade ever gets overturned, this law will go into effect in 30 days. |
| 1:52.0 | And that trigger law is called the Defense of Life Act and it is |
| 1:56.8 | pejoratively called not just the abortion ban but the total abortion ban. And so, but it doesn't totally ban abortion. What it does is it |
| 2:07.6 | prohibits abortion except in three circumstances. The first is rape, the second is incest, and the third is it, well I should say it prohibits |
| 2:20.0 | abortion is in all circumstances except rape, incest, and then the third is life of the mother. |
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