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Writers on the Range: Women shouldn’t be second-class citizens

The Idaho Legislature has passed bills to criminalize physicians for providing nationally recognized “standards of care.”
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The Idaho Legislature has passed bills to criminalize physicians for providing nationally recognized “standards of care.”

This week, writer Crista Worthy tells how her state of Idaho has made it almost impossible for women to get medical care for an abortion, a right that for 49 years was taken for granted. If men got pregnant, she says, none of this would be happening.