#dan foreman

"Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic candidate for the state House District 6 seat and member of the Nez Perce tribe..."

AHA tends to have influence with the stupidest politicians.  Case in point. 

“I’m tired of babies dying,” he said. “It’s time to start the fight, and I’ll be the point man. I’ve been through two wars and have 11 years as a cop. I’m not thin-skinned.”

A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candidate.

On Tuesday, local Democrat and Republican representatives organized a “Meet your candidates” forum in the northern Idaho town of Kendrick. Three contenders from each party vying for District 6 legislative seats - one senate and two house representatives positions - answered questions submitted by audience members.

When asked if discrimination existed in Idaho, conservative Sen. Dan Foreman said no.

In a statement released Wednesday, Democratic candidate for House Seat A and member of the Nez Perce tribe Trish Carter-Goodheart said she pushed back on that idea when it was her turn to speak, pointing to her own experience and the history of white supremacy groups in Northern Idaho.

Nicole Knight at Rewire:

Pregnant people who receive abortion care and the doctors who perform the procedure would face first-degree murder charges under a forthcoming bill by a Republican lawmaker in Idaho.

First-degree murder in Idaho carries a sentence of life imprisonment or death.

Draft language for the bill isn’t yet available, but its author said the legislation would carve out a single exception to the murder charges in cases where pregnant people’s lives are endangered.

“I don’t want to tell a woman what to do with her body, and neither should the government,” the bill’s author, Sen. Dan Foreman (R-Moscow), told the Lewiston Tribune. “But using that same logic, how can a woman tell her unborn child it has to die? Who represents the child?”

Idaho’s senate and house are under Republican control.

The bill’s effort to charge someone who has a legal abortion with first-degree murder is an apparent first in the nation.

“Over the years we have seen abortion bans, but not ones that specifically equate abortion with homicide,” Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute said in an email to Rewire.

Oklahoma Republicans last year failed in their legislative attempt to charge abortion doctors with murder. The bill’s language exempted pregnant people from prosecution.

Elsewhere, some prosecutors are twisting fetal homicide laws that are on the books to jail people whose pregnancies ended through their own actions—rather than by a third party committing a crime. These cases include Indiana’s Purvi Patel and Bei Bei Shuai, as Rewire’s Jessica Mason Pieklo has reported.

The proposed Idaho bill is unlike these laws in that it would turn legal abortions into first-degree murder, and possibly sentence the provider and pregnant person to life in prison or the death penalty.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees the legal right to abortion care—a more than 40-year-old right the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed last year in rejecting provisions of an onerous Texas abortion bill. But the Idaho Republican insists that “Roe v Wade was wrong.”

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