Sandpoint, Idaho's sole hospital will cease obstetric services due to the state's strict abortion bans and an unwelcoming environment for medical professionals. This leaves expectant mothers with limited options for childbirth.
A sign taped to a hanger hangs near the Idaho Capitol in Boise after protests against the state's new abortion laws, which effectively banned the procedure, pictured on November 11, 2022.The only hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, has announced that it will no longer be providing obstetric services for events such as childbirth due in part to Idaho’s extremely restrictive abortion bans and an increasingly hostile environment toward medical providers in the state.
. The press release describes the decision as “emotional and difficult,” and specifically calls out increasing criminalization of health care providers in the state as a reason that the hospital cannot offer labor and delivery services anymore. “Highly respected, talented physicians are leaving. Recruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficult,” says the release. “In addition, the Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care. Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil litigation and criminal prosecution, leading to jail time or fines.
The hospital says it will attempt to continue deliveries until mid-May and is no longer accepting new patients. Those seeking labor and delivery care in the over 9,000-person town will now have to drive 46 miles away, according to the“What a sad, sad state of affairs for our community,” Amelia Huntsberger, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Bonner General Health, told the. Huntsberger said that she is planning to leave the state because of its abortion laws.
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